Modi, Badal lied to people, sold false promises: Capt
Sunday, 09/08/2015
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BARNALA: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha and former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal as ‘liars’.
Former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh with MLA Kewal Singh Dhillon during a rally at a grain market in Barnala on Saturday.
“Both Modi and Badal have deceived the public by selling big promises during campaigning for last year’s Lok Sabha campaign,” he alleged, during his address at a well-attended rally in Barnala, organised by MLA Kewal Singh Dhillon. It is for the first time that Amarinder has attacked Modi so boldly.
“The voter across the country, especially Punjabis, are feeling deceived. Badal was already notorious for his lies, but Modi is not very far behind,” said Amarinder, listing out the failure of the state government in getting a special package from Modi; its ‘inability’ to implement the Atta-Dal scheme, the Shagun scheme and other social welfare schemes as instances where the govt had cheated the public.
‘INTELLIGENCE LAPSE MUST BE PROBED’
Seeking a probe into, what he claimed was an intelligence lapse by the Punjab government, he said, “People of Punjab want to know as where the intelligence input vanish? Whether it just kept sitting on the table of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal or his deputy chief minister son Sukhbir Badal, who also happens to be the home minister of the state,” he asked, pointing out that national security adviser Ajit Doval had said that Punjab had been alerted 10 days in advance, but DGP Sumedh Saini had said the police had got no alert from the government.
When queried on whether the DGP was not telling the truth, he said, “May be he actually did not receive any input. That is why I am asking for a thorough probe so that the lapse is identified and the accountability fixed.”
Besides local MLA Kewal Singh Dhillon, others present on the occasion were Mohammad Sadiq, Harchand Kaur, Gurcharan Singh Boparai, NSUI state president Iqbal Grewal, former media adviser BIS Chahal and others.
