LUDHIANA, May 14 (Harbans Singh)
Confronting his opponents, Punjab Congress president and party candidate from Ludhiana parliamentary constituency Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today asked them to spell out what they had to offer to people except the ‘jumlas’ (fake promises).
Addressing a series of public meetings in various assembly segments of the Ludhiana parliamentary constituency here today, Warring said, Congress had a clear and unambiguous mission which was aimed at 100 percent welfare of people be they farmers, the youth, women or the ordinary workers and labourers. He said, party had promised 25 guarantees, which were all welfare oriented and will be fulfilled immediately after the formation of the government.
He announced that the Congress party has guaranteed to waive off loans of all farmers. Besides, he added, there will be legal guarantee for the MSP. He said the loan waiver will not just be a one time affair, but there will be a permanent “Loan Relief Commission”, which will keep on examining from time to time the need for loan waiver for farmers.
Warring asked the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal to list one single such commitment to farmers. He observed that, while the farmers did not expect anything from the BJP as its “anti-farmer agenda” was too well known, he asked the Akalis what they had to offer.
Similarly, he added, the AAP leaders had made tall claims before forming the government in Punjab, but have already run away from their promises and commitments and pushed the entire blame on the centre. He said, while the central government indeed is to be blamed, what stopped the AAP from fulfilling its own commitments during the last two and a half years.
The PCC president claimed that the free power scheme was started during the Congress government headed by Charanjit Singh Channi, much before the AAP came to power in Punjab. He pointed out, the Channi government had waived off all the pending arrears of people pending for years.
“If the AAP government can take loans for publishing and broadcasting advertisements across the country with hardly any benefit to Punjab, why can’t it take similar loans for providing relief to farmers?” he asked, while remarking, whether it is AAP, the BJP or the Akalis, they have been doling out only ‘jumlas’ (fake promises).
He said, people can cross check that the states like Karnataka and Telangana, where Congress has formed the government, all the guarantees like Rs 2000 cash assistance to women have been fulfilled within months of the government formation. In contrast, the AAP has been in power for two and a half years now, it has simply forgotten to pay Rs 1000 each to every woman.
He said, the Congress delivers what it promises as it does not believe in fake and false promises.
