Cong: Badals resorting to no-holds-barred loot

The Congress put up an impressive show at the annual Chhapar Mela here today with thousands of party workers and all the senior party leaders of the state converging at the venue of the rally organized by the Kila Raipur MLA Jassi Khangura.

The Congress put up an impressive show at the annual Chhapar Mela here today with thousands of party workers and all the senior party leaders of the state converging at the venue of the rally organized by the Kila Raipur MLA Jassi Khangura.

Chhappar,which was earlier in Qila Raipur,now falls in Dakha assembly segment after the delimitation. Independent estimates put the strength of Congress rally ahead of all others,including that of the ruling Akali-BJP alliance. To cap it all,the rally was addressed by a galaxy of party leaders including Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Mohinder Singh Kaypee,the leader of the opposition in Punjab assembly,Rajinder Kaur Bhattal,Ludhiana MP Manish Tewari,Anandpur Sahib MP Ravneet Singh Bittu,Fateghgarh Sahib MP SS Libra and Kila Raipur MLA Jassi Khangura. Buoyed by the massive turn-out at the rally,the party leaders lashed out at the ruling Akali-BJP alliance and said that they had proved to be an all-round failure.

Addressing the rally,Bhattal said the Akalis,particularly the Badals,had never thought beyond the welfare of their own family. She alleged that the father-son duo had resorted to no-holds-barred loot of the state and pushed it into a deep financial mess.

Kaypee said instead of looking forward to the welfare of the state,the Badals were obsessed with their personal welfare. Be it the bus permits,the liquor vends,the sand mining,the cable network,everything has been grabbed by the Badal family, said Kaypee. He said people of the state had got so much disillusioned with the ruling alliance that they wanted to get rid of it at the earliest. Ludhiana MP Manish Tewari observed that the state had been pushed to a deep financial mess.

Kila Raipur MLA Jassi Khangura said that the huge turn-out at the Congress rally was proof of the peoples disillusionment with the government. He pointed out that despite huge resources at their disposal and with each legislator having been assigned particular number of people to be brought to the rally,the Akalis could not match the Congress. It is the strength and support of the people that counts and not the misuse of official machinery,he remarked while comparing the two rallies.

Prominent among those present on the occasion included legislators Isher Singh Meharban,Gurdeep Singh Bhaini,Sadhu Singh Dharamsot,Bibi Harchand Kaur,Rana Gurmeet Sodhi,former ministers Harnam Dass Johar,Malkiat Singh Dakha,youth leader Bhupinder Singh Sidhu,Pawan Dewan,District Congress Committee (rural) president Bhalinder Singh,Amarjit Singh Tikka and others.

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