Need to free state from Badals: Bajwa
Thursday, 02/04/2015
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Dhuri (Sangrur) : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Partap Singh Bajwa, while holding election rallies in the Dhuri Assembly constituency today, called upon people to vote for party candidate Simar Partap Singh Barnala “to make Punjab free from Badals”.
He said “Badal-mukt Punjab” should be the aim of every Punjabi to “save the youth from drugs, unemployment, illiteracy and poverty”.
Launching the election campaign of Simar Pratap Singh Barnala in the Dhuri constituency, Bajwa held rallies in Bhasaur, Ranchana, Dugni, Banbhauri, Bangawali, Bardwal and Ruldu Singh Wala villages. Bajwa was accompanied by Simar Pratap Barnala, PPCC vice-president Surinderpal Singh Sibia and other local leaders.
Bajwa said the SAD had made 44 promises to people, but none had been fulfilled. He said neither unemployment allowance of Rs 1,000 per month to unemployed youth had been given nor old-age pension enhanced from Rs 250 to Rs 500. Besides, the Shagun Scheme’s amount had also not been enhanced from Rs 15,000 to 31,000, he said.
Bajwa said Badal had also snatched employment opportunities from youths by enhancing retirement age from 58 to 60 years.
Bajwa promised to the people if the Congress was voted to power in 2017, it would set up fast-track courts for settling drug cases and these courts would function on a daily basis to expedite the justice process.
Left parties’ meet
Members of the CPI, CPM, CPM Punjab (Pasla) and the CPI ML Liberation held a meeting on Wednesday to take stock of the election campaign of their joint candidate Sukhdev Sharma of the CPI.
