Capt raises issue of Gujarat farmers
Friday, 25/04/2014
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Amritsar :Former chief minister and Congress candidate from Amritsar Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday asked BJP leader Narendra Modi whether he was coming here to give his stamp of approval to misrule of the Akali government.
He also referred to the issue of Gujarat farmers saying, “let me remind you of your promise about the Punjabi farmers in Gujarat, you made at Jagraon, during your first rally in Punjab on February 23, wherein you had publicly committed, albeit vaguely, that nobody will be forced out of Gujarat.”
He said, “everybody in Punjab assumed that your government will withdraw the appeal against the Gujarat High Court verdict that goes in their favour. Till now, your government has not done anything, not taken any initiative which could reveal your sincerity in meeting that commitment.”
The Congress leader reminded Modi that Ranjit Rana, a leader of the Youth Akali Dal shot an Assistant Sub Inspector of Police in broad daylight at a public place as the police officer tried to stop him from harassing his daughter.
Referring to the havoc caused by drugs, he told Modi, “let me also update you that not far from the venue of your rally is a place called Maqboolpura which is tragically called the village of widows as 90 per cent youth have died there after consuming drugs.”
