Ruling SAD-BJP alliance sure to lose in coming political kabaddi, says Bhattal
Monday, 21/11/2011
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20111121/punjab.htm#3
Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Rajinder Kaur Bhattal today chided the SAD-BJP alliance on kabaddi matches saying the real match (read Vidhan Sabha elections) was only about a couple of months away. In this “game”, said she, the ruling alliance was “sure to lose”.
Speaking to mediapersons here, she termed the Kabaddi World Cup, being organised with much fanfare by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on public expense, as a ‘tamasha’ (comedy) with the alleged objective to distract voters’ attention from real issues facing the state.
“The economy is in a shambles; the state has gone bankrupt and the debt burden is increasing with each passing day. And in the wake of a dismal power scenario, the industry has either gone sick or is in the process of shifting elsewhere,” she maintained.
Bhattal alleged that the government had shown criminal negligence in the execution of work on new power projects with the result that not even a single mega watt of power could be added during the last four and a half years. The former CM also accused the government of letting loose a reign of terror against the voices of dissent and protest.
"Dande de zor te lok raj wich sarkaran nahin chaldian" (In a democratic set up, governments cannot rule with force and repressions),” she remarked.
