Capt asks Sukhbir, Harsimrat’s constituencies to throw them out
Wednesday, 08/05/2019
https://www.brightpunjabexpress.com/index.php/2019/05/07/capt-asks-sukhbir-harsimrats-constituencies-to-throw-them-out/
PUNJAB EXPRESS BUREAU Fazilka/ Bhuchho, May 7 In a scathing attack against the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday tore through the arrogance of Sukhbir and Harsimrat Badal in their own constituencies. Calling them corrupt and power-hungry couple who he said needed to be taught a lesson in these elections for their attempts to divide the state on communal lines. Addressing massive elections rallies in Sukhbir’s Ferozepur and Harsimat’s Bathinda constituencies, Captain Amarinder asked the people to defeat such leaders who used Punjab and their power for promoting their vested interests and not for the state’s welfare. In Bhuchho, the CM was accompanied by his cabinet colleague Manpreet Badal, and senior Congress leader and Rajasthan minister Harish Choudhary. Seeking votes for the Congress candidates, Shamsher Singh Ghubaya and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, pitted against the Badals, the CM said they had made hotels and properties at the cost of Punjab’s people during their tenure. Even now, he had heard that Akali leaders were threatening people not to vote for Congress, said the CM, asking the crowd for the names of the trouble makers. “I know how to set them right, I know how to put the Badals in their place,” he declared amidst loud cheers. If they (Badals) and other Akalis leaders like Bikram Singh Majithia think they can go around scaring people into voting for SAD, they are mistaken, said Captain Amarinder, adding that muscle power and arm twisting does not work in a democracy. They will all be taught a lesson in these elections, he declared Badals would have to face the consequences of their actions, Captain Amarinder said, asserting that nobody who allowed holy scriptures like Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the Geeta,the Bible and the Quran to be desecrated will escape punishment. Punjab has been through bad times, which the Badals tried to further aggravate with their divisive agenda and attempts to create hatred through by allowing acts of sacrilege. IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh will be back in SIT after the elections to take the probe in the sacrilege cases to its logical conclusion, warned the CM. While the Badals had resorted to sacrilege to try and divide Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was striving to rip apart the nation’s secular fabric, the CM said, adding that the BJP and their allies were out to divide India on religious lines while the Congress stood for the equality of all religions.
