Former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that the BJP is the only party that can take care of the state’s security and economic challenges and slammed the Congress and AAP for making poll promises which cannot be fulfilled. Amarinder Singh also claimed that his party’s alliance with BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal-United for next year’s assembly elections is in the interest of the nation and the state. The former chief minister had formed his own party, the Punjab Lok Congress, after leaving the ruling Congress in the state last year following his unofficial exit as CM. Addressing a public meeting here after inducting Congress leader Raj Numberdar into his party, Singh said Punjab was facing many challenges, especially on the security and economic front.
Welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab’s Ferozepur on Wednesday, he said, “I found BJP as the only party that can take care of both the things. Knowing Prime Minister Modi for a long time, he Have seen them worried. About Punjab and Punjabis. Addressing a press conference later, the former CM slammed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu for riding on promises to the people of the state. , which they knew could not be accomplished.
Referring to Sidhu’s election promises that he made to women and girl students, Singh wondered whether he realized their financial implications. “Punjab’s cumulative debt is already around Rs 5 lakh crore and I don’t know from where Sidhu and Kejriwal will get the money to support these schemes,” he said, adding that Sidhu had met Chief Minister Charanjit a month ago. The declaration of declared free was opposed. Singh Channi and Arvind Kejriwal. He said that Sidhu does not have a permanent stand on anything.
On distribution of tickets for the elections, he said victory would be the sole criterion for shortlisting the candidates and the process has already started as all the three parties have started talks. On the face of the post of Chief Minister, he said that it will be a collective decision of the alliance partners. He further said that a few weeks ago he had written to the Prime Minister demanding a special package of Rs 1 lakh crore for Punjab for agricultural diversification, which could be given over a period of five years, Rs 20,000 crore every year. He said it can be used to encourage and promote the cultivation of pulses especially as India imports pulses worth Rs 1.5 lakh crore every year. “If we grow pulses here, we can save huge foreign exchange apart from saving the rapidly depleting water table due to extensive paddy cultivation,” he said.
Responding to a question that Channi was accusing him of non-performance, he said that the CM as well as Congress leaders are asking for votes showing the performance of the Congress government for five years, out of which he was four and a half years old. were on top. “You ask them if I haven’t performed then why are they asking for votes for the last five years and not only for their three months,” he said.
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