Cong, SAD-BJP ruined Punjab: Bhagwant Mann

Chhappar (Ludhiana),  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) State President Bhagwant Mann lashed out at Congress and SAD-BJP and held them responsible for completely ruining Punjab through their corruption and mismanagement during last 25 years. Addressing a political conference at historic Chhappaar Mela here today, Mr Mann alleged that these parties always had been making false promises with the people in the elections and never bothered to redress the basic problems of people after winning elections. Making scathing attack on Capt Singh, the AAP MP said he had ditched the farmers and farm labourers by back tracking from his promise of complete waiver of their debts, as a result there was a spurt in farmers’ suicides in state. He said that more than 200 farmers had committed suicides during the five months rule of Congress government in Punjab. He expressed his serious concern over issuing of notices to the defaulting farmers and displaying of their photos at banks and termed it as insult to the injuries of farming community of Punjab, who made the country self sufficient in food grains. He also charged the Congress Party in failing to implement any of the promises including enhancement of old age pensions, jobs to unemployed youth, complete eradication of corruption, drugs and various kind of mafias were also not given any attention and now people were fully disillusioned. Mr Mann further said now the farmers were also facing the blunt of furious insecticides and low quality seeds, which compelled them to plough their cotton fields and the government was only providing lip service, as the previous Badal government had been taking. He called upon the party leaders to educate the party cadres and general public about the failures of government. He asserted that AAP will strongly fight for the issues of people and next time will definitely form Govt in Punjab, as the support of people was still with it. Speaking on the occasion, AAP MLA Harvinder Singh Phoolka extended thanks to people and assured that party will force the government to fulfill promises. Addressing the conference, Lok Insaaf Party MLA Balwinder Bains lambasted Congress and SAD-BJP for looting the resources particularly water and demanded the implementation of Vidhan Sabha resolution for recovering loyalty of water amounting to Rs 16 lakh crores from Rajasthan and other states. UNI