Jalandhar: Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday said that not only BJP but Rashtariya Swayamsewak Sangh had also helped Congress in 2017 election to make Captain Amarinder Singh Punjab chief minister.
He said that Captain had better relationship with BJP than SAD party when they were its alliance partner in Punjab. It was visible even Captain led Punjab government that it shared cordial relations with the Central government.
Badal further said the Congress as a party was already dead in Punjab and what was left were only Kabeelas (tribes) and this was why everyone was suffering with even sugarcane growers being denied the State Assured Price (SAP) of Rs 360 per quintal by sugar mills.
“There is Channi, Sidhu, Jakhar, Randhawa Kabeela and so on.” said Badal while addressing media persons here and went on to add “even these Kabeelas are going to disintegrate into countless more entity with Congmen indulging in a free for all to destroy one another”.
Lashing out at the Congress government, the SAD President said “Channi’s government in Punjab is in complete chaos with the right hand not knowing what the left is doing and every one acting on their own. It’s exactly like what Punjabis saw in 1996 when Mrs Rajinder Kaur Bhatal replaced CM Harcharan Brar. February 2022 is going to be a repeat February 1997 when the Congress party only won only 14 seats.”
Badal also asked the CM Channi “to come clean on whether he had disowned the entire Congress manifesto of 2017. He must clarify his stand on complete loan waiver to all farmers, 25 lakh jobs to youth, Rs 2500 per month to all unemployed, free sugar and tea to all poor and mobile phones to the youth. It is high time Channi broke his silence on these promises to which he was also a party”.
The SAD President also asked the chief minister to tell why he had not taken prompt action to address the problems of sugarcane and cotton growers.