Badal blackmailing voters: Amarinder
Wednesday, 20/02/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130220/punjab.htm#5
Moga : PCC president Capt Amarinder Singh has alleged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is blackmailing the electorate of Moga by indicating that development works will stall in the area if they did not vote in their favour.
Addressing public meetings at Salina, Chotian Khurd, Sosan and other villages today, he said Badal had been saying Joginder Pal Jain joined the SAD for Moga’s development and now the people must vote for him if they wanted development in the area.
The PCC chief said it was unbecoming of a five-time Chief Minister to tell the people that they should only vote for the ruling party to ensure development.
“This amounts to blackmail by using the threat of discrimination against the constituency,” he said.
Alleging double standards adopted by Badal, Amarinder said: “The Chief Minister levels allegations that Punjab is being meted out step-motherly treatment by the Centre. It is in fact Badal who is discriminating against all those assembly constituencies which do not have Akali legislators”.
He said none of the tactics of the Badals would work this time as the mood in both urban and rural areas was against the ruling alliance and Joginder Pal Jain in particular for his political betrayal. He claimed the government was bound to carry out equitable development.
It is unbecoming of a five-time Chief Minister to tell the people that they should only vote for the ruling party to ensure development
