Capt ridicules slugfest of lies
Wednesday, 09/03/2016
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Chandigarh : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Capt Amarinder on Tuesday ridiculed the competitive lies being told by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in an apparent aim to befool people of Punjab.
“Sukhbir and Kejriwal have entered into a mad rat race to outsmart and out-lie each other without realising that they are getting badly exposed in the process”, he remarked, while adding, “it seems they have entered into a competition of lies”.
He also demanded statewide girdawri across Punjab to assess losses to the crops due to recent unseasonal rains and hailstorm. “Sukhbir Badal and Arvind Kejriwal have entered into an unabashed and shameless competition of telling lies and make bogus claims at the cost of tax payers money”, Capt Amarinder said in a statement issued here on Tuesday in response to multi-page advertisements released by the Akali-BJP government in the state in competition with the AAP government of Delhi.
The PPCC president pointed out, the state government does not have money to pay salaries and pensions which are pending for last six months and still it has gone into wonton overdrive of spending crores of rupees on advertisements in the newspapers. “It is so characteristic of Sukhbir’s megalomaniac vanity that while his government has turned the state bankrupt and development has come to a standstill, he will claim that Punjab is ranking top”, he remarked.
He said, the Akali-BJP government in Punjab, like the AAP government of Delhi, was flouting all moral, ethical and legal norms in its publicity campaign. “Besides using the bogus and unethical means of paid news, they are both spreading lies only while having done nothing to claim what they are claiming”, he said, while adding, this was brazen abuse of public money.
Giving the example of fake and bogus claims, Capt Amarinder referred to Sukhbir’s claims of Punjab being power surplus when majority of the cities, towns and villages do not even get 12 hour power supply. “No doubt the availability of power has increased as most of the industry has shut down in Punjab, but even then the state has not become power surplus,”he asserted, while adding, “this is a classic and characteristic gossip Sukhbir has now become (in)famous for”.
