Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday took a dig at Congress leader Amarinder Singh, saying he was “trying to replicate” him by launching mass outreach campaign in the hope of becoming Chief Minister but his dream will “never be fulfilled.”
Mr. Badal said Capt. Singh was “promising moon” to everyone knowing very well that he “cannot form” the government when he faces the Assembly polls next year.
“Former Chief Minister is trying to replicate me. The most inaccessible Captain is now sweating out in scorching heat in the hope of becoming the Chief Minister of State,” the SAD leader said here on the sidelines of ‘Sangat Darshan’ programme in the Nakodar Assembly segment.
Mr. Badal was taking a swipe at Capt. Singh’s recently-started six-month mass outreach campaign ‘Halke Vich Captain’ (Captain in the area) under which the Punjab Congress chief will spend a day in each of all 117 assembly constituencies to establish a direct contact with voters.
In this campaign, Amarinder, an MP from Amritsar, is hearing out grievances of people, and promising them to set up Special Task Force within 100 days if Congress forms government for redressing public grievances.
Slamming the Congress leaders for shedding “crocodile tears” on the emotive issue of the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, the Chief Minister said they should not forget that they were a “part and parcel of this grave conspiracy to snatch the waters of State”.
He said every Congress leader, who is creating hue and cry over this issue, should know that it was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who laid the foundation of this canal to “ruin” the state.
Likewise, he said that at that time every big or small Congress leader including the present State Congress had welcomed Indira Gandhi to perform ground breaking ceremony for depriving Punjab of its share in water. PTI
