Press Release on S. Gurcharan Singh Galib - 25/02/2009

That Mr Gurcharan Singh Galib is now the Akali candidate for the Ludhiana seat reflects poor judgement by Mr Galib, the CM and Sukhbir Badal.

Throughout his political career Mr Galib has been loyal only to himself. He consistently worked against Congress Party candidates but somehow managed to avoid being expelled.

The fact of the matter is that the Akali party has since delimitation effectively written off the Ludhiana seat as a certain loss. That is why Bikram Majitha, having toyed for a few days last month with the idea of contesting the Ludhiana seat, quickly rejected the proposal once he understood the ground political realities.

The Akalis were looking for a scapegoat and in Mr Galib they found a willing victim.

Most shocking of all, for anyone who has observed Mr Galib’s dalliance with the Akalis over the last few weeks, it is now abundantly clear that this is more a case of Mr Galib asking for the Akali ticket than the Akali party offering him the ticket.

In spite of his two Parliamentary terms and earlier MLA tenure there is no way that Mr Galib can claim to have been the doyen of Ludhiana Congress politics. Far from being a political heavyweight, Mr Galib was always a divisive figure in Ludhiana and he never enjoyed the support of the majority of Congress MLAs in Ludhiana.

His mercenary role in the allotment of Corportation election tickets in 2002 is well known to all.

In Parliament he failed to fulfil his duties. On questions tabled, contribution to debates and committee proceedings his record is amongst the poorest of all Parliamentarians. Present yes, active no, effective never; that’s Mr Galib’s Parliamentary report card.

Outside of Parliament he never did much of note either. In spite of a career spread over 5 decades there are no issues or campaigns or initiatives that one can attribute to Mr Galib. Even a first time MLA can do better than this in a single year.

As a non-performing Parliamentarian Mr Galib was rightly denied the ticket in 2004. To have rewarded him then would have been a tragedy and an insult to others with better credentials.

In Manish Tewari the Congress Party has a person who is streets ahead of Mr Galib when it comes to intellect, the understanding of issues and the protection of Punjab’s interests. Manish can proficiently communicate and debate.

Moreover, most people agree that Manish’s stature will grow once he becomes an MP, something that was never expected of Galib sahib.

Any enhancement of the rural vote in the Ludhiana Parliamentary seat will be more than offset by a huge urban swing to Congress as a result of Mr Galib’s candidature. Mr Galib may have gategrashed the Akali party but there will be no sweets on results day, just tears.

Far from the media star power the Akalis once wanted to bring to Ludhiana, most people are shocked that Mr Galib is the best that they can offer. If there is a media star in this contest it is most certainly Manish Tewari, the next MP from the Ludhiana Parliamentary constituency.

Jassi Khangura MLA
Halqa Qila Raipur
25 February 2009.

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