Capt assures new industrial policy, more jobs for youth
Thursday, 08/12/2011
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APPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh today questioned the timing of conferring the Faqr-e-Qaum award on Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal when “Akali stalwarts like Baba Kharak Singh and Master Tara Singh had been ignored in the past”.
“The SGPC, the body which conferred the award, is controlled by the Akalis and both the CM and his son are in the habit of arm-twisting it to suit their ends,” Amarinder said.
Addressing a rally here, the PPCC chief lambasted Badal and his son Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal terming them as “liars of the first order”. Amarinder also promised to bring in a new industrial policy if the Congress was voted to power in the coming assembly elections. He said there were nearly 47 lakh unemployed people in Punjab primarily because of the “myopic industrial policies of the Badal father-son duo.”
There was a clamour amongst ticket seekers of Qadian, Batala and Fatehgarh Churian to bring in the maximum number of supporters to the rally in an attempt to impress the PPCC chief. The rally was held at VMS College, owned by PPCC vice-president Ashwani Sekhri who along with Dr SS Nijjar is a frontrunner in the race to secure ticket from Batala Vidhan Sabha segment.
Gurdaspur District Congress Committee chief Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa remark that “Sukhbir says the SAD will rule Punjab for next 25 years, however, when the Congress comes to power he will run to some foreign country in just 25 hours” had the crowd in peals of laughter.
Gurdaspur MP Partap Bajwa, AICC Punjab affairs in-charge Gulchain Singh Charak, Leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, former minister Tripit Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Youth Congress leader Vikram Joshi were among those present.
