Amargarh/ Malerkotla, February 14, 2022 (Yes Punjab News)
Former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said giving a chance to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was akin to signing away the river waters of Punjab and would spell an end to all social welfare schemes started in the State by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
Addressing a gathering here in favour of SAD candidate Iqbal Singh Jhundan at Amargarh and Nusrat Alai Khan Bagga at Malerkotla, the Bathinda mp while showing the affidavit submitted by AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal in the Supreme Court in his capacity as Delhi chief minister, said “this is proof that AAP is committed to taking away the river waters of Punjab and handing them over to Haryana and Delhi”.
She said this was not all. “AAP has submitted similar affidavits in the apex court calling for the closure of thermal plants of the State besides registering criminal complaints against Punjab farmers who had burnt their paddy stubble in sheer desperation after not getting any support from the State government”.
Mrs Harsimrat Badal said Punjabis should also be aware that the Delhi model which was being propounded by Kejriwal did not have any space for free power to farmers as this was not being implemented in Delhi. She said similarly the Delhi Model did not call for extending social welfare schemes like ‘aata-daa’, shagun and old age pension to the weaker sections of society.
Asserting that Kejriwal was befooling Punjabis with false commitments, Mrs Badal said dummy leaders like Bhagwant Mann were also acting in a spineless manner by refusing to question Kejriwal about his anti-Punjab agenda. She said Bhagwant Mann had not questioned Kejriwal even once on why he had taken an anti-Punjab stance on the issue of the river waters of Punjab or the issue of closure of the State’s thermal plants and the AAP demand to levy penalties against Punjab farmers. “How can we expect Bhagwant Mann to safeguard the interests of the State in future also when he is surviving on the mercy of Kejriwal?” she asked.
The Bathinda MP also exposed the Congress party for not doing anything for Punjabis for the last five years. She said the Congress party annexed power by taking false oaths in the name of the holy Gutka Sahib. She said the Congress party had reneged on each and every promise made by it when in government be it the issue of complete farm loan waiver, giving jobs to youth or increasing the old age pension to Rs 2,500 per month and shagun scheme benefit to Rs 51,000”.
She also condemned chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi for indulging in a sham of being a poor chief minister. “This claim has been exposed by the recovery of Rs 11 crore in cash and gold from Channi’s nephew Honey besides benami property papers worth Rs 56 crore”. She said Honey had also admitted that the recoveries were on account of money received from the sand mafia as well as that received for making postings and transfers.
Urging the people to reject Channi as well as the Congress party, Mrs Badal also castigated the chief minister for never standing up to protect the rights of the scheduled caste community when his own party minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot embezzled Rs 64 crore meant for distribution among scheduled caste students as SC scholarship.
Urging the people to vote in a time tested party and alliance in the form of the SAD-BSP, Mrs Badal said the alliance was committed to giving Rs 2,000 per month to women heads of below poverty line families, 400 units of free power per month, Rs ten lakh student card for higher studies, Rs 10 lakh medical insurance, creation of one lakh government jobs and ten lakh private jobs, distribution of five lakh houses free of cost to the poor and needy as well as giving five thousand five marla houses to the poor in all constituencies of the State”.
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