Capt challenges Jaitley to contest Amritsar bypoll

Friday, 02/12/2016

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New Delhi: Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Sing on Thursday dared Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to contest ok Sabha by election from Amritsar.Capt said let it be a referendum on the Modi government’s dictatorial demonetisation move.

It may be recalled that Jaitley had, in 2014, lost by a huge margin to Amarinder from the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency.

Reacting strongly to the gold restrictions imposed by Modi government on Thursday, Captain said these kind of things happened in the Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler. “So is the Modi government trying to replicate the Nazi ideology in India?” he asked.

Pointing out that gold was a symbol of marital happiness and had a lot of significance for Indian women, he questioned the intentions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Jaitley.

Expressing serious concern over the latest spate of hacking incidents, Captain Amarinder Singh warned Modi against exposing the common people to fraudsters through his ill-conceived demonetisation scheme, saying it would backfire on the government, beginning with the forthcoming Assembly elections.

There is a lot of resentment among the common people over the unplanned execution of the demonetisation move, said Captain Amarinder, adding that the hacking episodes relating to Congress websites had exposed the vulnerability of the digital system which Modi was asking them to adopt. Before deciding to shift the whole country from cash transactions to digital transactions, Modi should have taken into consideration the ground realities and made cyber transactions foolproof, said Captain.

To a question on ticket allocation in the Congress for the forthcoming Punjab Assembly elections, Captain Amarinder said all seats woill be finalised on December 3, when the Congress Electoral Committee meets here under AICC president Sonia Gandhi.

Asked about Navjot Singh Siddhu, he said he was hopeful of meeting him soon and said Sidhu will play an important role in the Punjab Congress polls campaign.

On the SYL issue, Captain Amarinder questioned Chief Minister Parkash Singh questioned Badal’s intentions, asking why he had not done anything to protect Punjab’s water over the past 10 years.

In fact, Badals had done ardas at Golden Temple before Operation Blue Star saying that the tanks would have to go over their dead bodies before being allowed to enter the temple, but had run away when the time for test came.