Drug trade has Badal govt’s patronage: AAP
Thursday, 21/05/2015
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Sangrur : The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) ‘Beiman Bhajao-Punjab Bachao — Lok Chetna March’, which reached here last night, resumed its journey from Sangrur in the morning today towards Barnala district.
First, it reached Badbar village and then Dhanaula, Barnala and Sangherra in Barnala district.
After that, the march passed through Sherpur, Dhuri, Malerkotla, Amargarh and Bagrian villages in Sangrur district before entering Patiala district this evening.
At all the places, volunteers of AAP gave a rousing reception to the march. Sanjay Singh, AAP’s Punjab observer; Sucha Singh Chhotepur, state convener of the party; Jasbir Singh Jassi Sekhon, district convener of the party; and Abjinder Sangha, personal assistant to Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann; were part of the march.
Talking to reporters here today Sanjay Singh, the party’s Punjab observer, held the Badal government responsible for all miseries being faced by people in the state.
He alleged that even drug trade had the patronage of the Badal government due to which no action was being taken against the powerful politicians whose names had figured in the drug-smuggling scam.
Sanjay Singh said there was a rampant corruption in the state as people had to pay money even for making ration cards and death certificates. He said Punjab was nowadays under various mafias like transport, sand, liquor and drugs that had been running the state.
Sanjay Singh said the Lok Chetna March of the AAP against the “anti-people” policies of the Badal government had been getting overwhelming response throughout the state. He said that in such circumstances, he was confident that AAP would repeat the victory of the Delhi Assembly elections in Punjab in 2017.
