Bajwa meets former Cong leader - End of Akali rule to begin with Lok Sabha elections, says Bajwa

Tuesday, 25/03/2014

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The Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa has claimed that the people of Punjab will teach a lesson to the SAD-BJP partnership in the Lok Sabha elections as they are “fed up” with the ruling alliance in the state.

“The Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance symbolises forces of “reaction” and “regression”. The Congress stood for secularism and inclusiveness,” he said in a statement issued here.

Bajwa further claimed that the people of Punjab were “feeling harassed and humiliated and were just waiting for the opportunity to punish them”.

“The socio-political environment has turned suffocating under Akali jathedars without whose signal a common man cannot even lodge a complaint with police,” he alleged.

Bajwa charged that the SAD-BJP alliance is seeking votes mainly in the name of its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as the ruling dispensation has “failed” to bring about any change in the state’s landscape despite making tall claims.

“How come there is now no talk of a Metro for Ludhiana and Pod transportation system for Amritsar? All talks of providing cheap cancer treatment has proved hollow as the cancer train from Bathinda to Bikaner continues to be full with patients (from Punjab), who are looking to get cheaper treatment,” he further alleged.

He advised the Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal to visit the cities of Punjab to take a first-hand look at the actual status of development in the state.

“Selling public land at subsidised rates to certain private institutions, whose sole motive was profit, cannot be termed development,” Bajwa said, while adding, “schools and dispensaries in the countryside are crumbling while there is no adequate government staff to meet the basic needs of the people.”
Pathankot: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Partap Singh Bajwa alongwith his PPCC general secretary wife Charanjit Kaur Bajwa, on Sunday, visited former Congress leader Ashok Sharma at his residence. The so-called special secret meeting was planned at Ashok Sharma’s residence near Renuka Mandir.

It si speculated that former Congress MLA Ashok Sharma might have given his support to Bajwa for the general elections. According to information, Bajwa looked satisfied over the visit. He was heard saying that if all the family members come together than fighting elections would become an easy task. This was just a preliminary preparation ahead of the parliamentary elections, he added.

Former MLA Ashok Sharma has a stronghold in Pathankot as he succeeded to get more than 23,000 votes as an Independent candidate in the last general elections.