Topple ‘corrupt’, ‘visionless’ regime, says Cong leader
Sunday, 14/12/2014
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GURDASPUR: Activists of the Gurdaspur Congress unit led by Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee member Raman Bahl took out a candle march in here on Saturday to protest against “directionless policies” of the SAD-BJP government.
The protesters alleged that due to directionless policies of the government a job seeker, Gurpreet Kaur of Gurdaspur, attempted self-immolation in front of the residence of Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal in Chandigarh on Friday.
Gurpreet was admitted at a Sector-16 government hospital with around 40% burns, they claimed, adding she was denied the permission to meet the chief minister.
Addressing a gathering at Hanuman Chowk, Bahl said the SAD-BJP leaders were busy enjoying power and they hardly had time to think about providing jobs to lakhs of the unemployed youths of Punjab.
Expressing concern over Gurpreet’s attempt to commit suicide, Bahl said such jobless youths were sitting almost in every house of the state.
He said there was a frustration and despair among the youth, who had spent so many years and a lot of money on their education, over the uncertainty of getting jobs.
He said only a few pass outs were lucky enough to get jobs, whereas a large number of them remained jobless and frustrated in their life.
Bahl said the SAD had promised lakhs of jobs to the unemployed in their election manifesto, but the Badal government did nothing to fulfill it.He said no industrial project had been set up in the border district of Gurdaspur to provide jobs to the youth under the present regime. Without the security of job, there could be no progress in the state, he added. Bahl gave a clarion call to the people to topple down the “corrupt and visionless” government for their welfare.
