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City Air News
Several SAD women workers and leaders join Congress in the presence of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jakhar at Ludhiana on Friday.
City Air News photo: Mandeep Kumar Verma
Ludhiana, September 6, 2013: Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jakhar has said BJP MP from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu's recent allegations had endorsed the Congress party's view that the Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal did not believe in democracy.
Interacting with the media persons here today, he said the treatment meted out to Sidhu showed that the Badals believe in the politics of might and money.
Further expressing his reaction to the Sidhu’s outburst, he said the BJP MP’s allegation that he was being treated like an opposition MP had vindicated the Punjab Congress stand about the biased working of the ruling SAD-BJP government in the state. He said they too were saying all that over the period, adding Sidhu had now proved correct whatever they had been saying.
Jakhar said the Congress party was happy to find that Sidhu had finally spoken the truth. He added now anybody could easily understand as what would be the treatment of the ruling alliance government in Punjab to the Congress MPs and MLAS in the state.
On being asked about differences between the Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa and former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Jakhar told that it was not true. He categorically said there prevailed no differences between the two party leaders. He claimed that the entire party leadership was united and every leader was working as per the duties and responsibilities assigned to him. He said Capt Amarinder Singh's plan to hold road shows in Punjab was aimed at exposing misdeeds of the present state government in view of the forthcoming elections to the parliament next year.
He regretted that unemployment was on rise due to the wrong policies of ruling state government in Punjab, and alleged that the state government had been failing to escape from its promise of giving unemployment allowance to the unemployed youths in the state. He regretted that the industrial units were getting closed because of steep rise in power tariff and other reasons and faulty policies of the state government. As a result the situation with regard to unemployment was aggravating further in Punjab.
Replying to a question, he told that the state government could provide relief to people by reducing rates of value added tax (VAT) on petrol.
On the occasion, several local Akali women announced to join the Congress today in his presence.
Date:
Friday, September 6, 2013