Punjab: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Thursday accused Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of allowing the Centre and...
Punjab: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Thursday accused Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of allowing the Centre and the Haryana government to use tear gas shells and shoot rubber bullets at farmers of Punjab to evade arrest in the multi-crore liquor scam.
Addressing public meetings in Bathinda (Rural) and Bhucho assembly segments, he said Mann “knows he can go behind bars like his boss (Delhi CM) Arvind Kejriwal because he has perpetrated the same liquor scam in Punjab as was done in Delhi”.
“This is why he is ready
to hand over the Punjab government to the BJP by forming an AAP (Punjab) unit
by taking it out of the control of the AAP central unit led by Arvind Kejriwal.
This will be done in the same manner as the Shiv Sena and the NCP were broken
in Maharashtra by the BJP,” he alleged.
Asserting that Mann and
AAP would have to answer for colluding with the Haryana government and allowing
the latter to attack Punjab farmers on Punjab soil, Badal said: “Can you
imagine this happening under any SAD government?”
He said this is why he was
appealing to Punjabis to snub “Delhi parties” in the forthcoming parliamentary
election.
“Only a regional party can
safeguard your interests. Delhi-based parties only come to loot you and your
resources,” he added.
On the development done
by SAD in this constituency, Badal said: “You have seen how Bathinda was
developed during the two successive terms of the SAD government from 2007 to
2017. Bathinda became a modern city with an influx of infrastructure
and institutions. The SAD government brought AIIMS to the
city, a thermal plant, a Central university, and an airport. You have
witnessed how all civic amenities have fallen into decay and no new project has
come to Bathinda in the last seven years of the Congress and AAP tenure.”
Appealing to people to support his wife and Akali Dal candidate Harsimrat Kaur Badal, “who has always raised your voice in Parliament”, he said: “This will pave the way for the next SAD government in 2027 and a restart of development in the city.”
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