2017 assembly elections will end Badals’ rule in Punjab: Manpreet

Saturday, 30/07/2016

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FEROZEPUR: Education, unemployment and health services will remain on top of the agenda if Congress is voted to power in 2017 Punjab assembly elections, said Congress leader Manpreet Singh Badal, while urging the party workers to get maximum votes for the party.

The Congress leader praised Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, three times MLA from Guru Har Sahai, for an impressive gathering at the meeting organised at Lakho Ke Behram village here on Friday.

“The verdict of 2017 polls will end the dynasty rule of Badals and an era of development in the state will commence,” said Manpreet.

“People of the state have high hopes from the Congress. We promise to deliver more than your expectations,” said Manpreet, who is also the advisor of the party election manifesto.

“The Congress regime will bring the state beck on the track (economically as well as socially),” said Manpreet, adding, “History speaks for itself. As and when the country was in crisis, the Congress sailed it through it.”

“The Akalis are befooling the state by giving job advertisements every day. The model code of conduct may get implemented in a couple of months and no recruitment process will get accomplished before that,” he said.

“In the last nine years of the Akali misrule, people have suffered, and now, they have decided to show them (Akalis) the door,” said former party MP Vijayinder Singla.

Slamming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Singla said, “It a bubble and will blast very soon.”

“Old-age pension will be increased to `2,000 a month, while the shagun scheme will be further raised to `51,000, the day Congress came to regime,” said Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, three times MLA from Guru Har Sahai.

“The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has no stand for Punjab on the Sutlej Yamuna Link issue as the case is not being withdrawn from the court deliberately. While the then Punjab CM and Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh took stand for the state even after putting his chair into danger,” Sodhi said.

“The recent announcements on electricity charges are nothing, but a political gimmick tariff,” he said, adding, “During the Badals tenure, they only monopolised sand, liquor and cable trade, besides police to snub political rivals.”

Meanwhile, former minister of legislative assembly (MLA) Rakesh Pandey, party leader from Ferozepur (rural) Satkar Kaur, Anumit Heera Sodhi, besides other Congress men were also present at the meeting.