Exile only option left for Badal after 2017: Captain Amarinder
Wednesday, 24/02/2016
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Chandigarh : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh has ridiculed Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s dreams of forming the government again in 2017 and said that he should actually prepare himself for the political exile as public was going to pronounce a verdict on him.
“Given the current circumstances and the anger prevailing among people against the Badals, the exile will be the only option available to them as people will chase them out for all the sins of omission and commission during two tenures,” Capt Amarinder said, while pointing out, even now the Badals cannot dare to venture out in public without huge security cover.
He alleged that the Chief Minister was guilty of the cardinal sin of ordering the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in an attempt at controlled destabilisation in the state to divert public attention. “Such sins cannot and will never be forgotten or forgiven”, he said, while asserting people of Punjab will severely punish Badal, with at least, political exile for it.
Besides, he added, Badal had failed all sections of the state whether the farmers, the youth, the industry, the employees and everyone else. “Because he could never look beyond his family and clan with seven MLAs of his family in the Vidhan Sabha and four of them being ministers and another in the Central government”, he pointed out.
Reacting to Badal’s claims that he shall be forming the government for the third consecutive term in 2017, the PCC president challenged him to name a single assembly segment that he or his party can claim to be safe to contest from. “You may fool some people sometimes, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”, he told Badal.
Team of media panellists announced
Chandigarh: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh has approved a team of ‘media panellists’ which will represent the party in various debates and discussions on different television and electronic channels. Senior party leader and former Deputy Speaker in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Bir Devinder Singh will be the coordinator. The other panellists include Rana K P Singh, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Harpartap Singh Ajnala, Inderjit Singh Zira, Jagbir Brar and Rajinder Deepa.
‘Time to widen ambit of reservation’
New Delhi: The time has come to widen the ambit of reservation and extend it to economically weaker sections, Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh said on Tuesday amid the agitation for Jat reservation which rocked Haryana and other parts of northern India.
“While caste-based reservations as enshrined in the Constitution cannot be dispensed with, the time has come to expand their ambit and bring the economically weaker and disadvantaged sections of the society from the general category also within its purview. We only need to widen the ambit of reservation and not reverse it,” he told reporters here.
Amarinder, the Deputy Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, called for political parties to arrive at a mutually-agreeable stand so that situations like the one prevailing in Haryana are avoided.
“Otherwise, in the time to come, the demand for reservation might become too frequent and may be difficult to control as these have the potential to turn violent,” he said.
