Cong dares Sukhbir to debate on public issues

Singh asked both Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his deputy to choose as many issues as they can and select any university campus and he will be there to debate the matter in question. “I am open for public debate anywhere in Punjab,” he said.

Singh,who met party workers and leaders at Pathankot in Gurdaspur as part of his ongoing programme to meet party cadre,constituency-wise,said the days of Badal government were numbered. The Congress would ensure this “corrupt” government’s ouster in the next Assembly elections.

He reiterated that SAD-BJP government has failed on all fronts and has ruined the economy due to its wrong policies.

He met workers from four Assembly segments including Dinanagar,Pathankot,Bhoa and Sujanpur. He said during his interaction with the workers he had found that the BJP leaders had been as ruthless and vindictive as their Akali partners. “In some cases,they were worse than Akalis.”

Giving an instance,he said one of the Congress sarpanches,Amarjeet Singh of village Behrampur,had been slapped with five criminal cases just because he was with the Congress. In a separate case,he said an ex-sarpanch Darshan Singh Dalla and currently Zila Parishad member was jailed along with his engineering student grandson for being a party worker.

He said the Congress workers were angry and wanted the party to avenge each and every case of atrocity by the BJP against them.

He said none of the guilty will be spared and each and every culprit will be brought to book when the party returns to power in state.

He also promised to take up the proposal of making Pathankot a district and giving due representation to youth and women while distributing tickets for the forthcoming Assembly elections.