Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh said the Congress's sweeping victory in the civic polls indicated public faith on the state government's policies and achievement in the past nine months. He said poll results have announced defeat of the opposition's deceiving publicity.
Applauding the people of Punjab for not surrendering to the opposition's pressure tactics, Amarinder said that the rival parties were trying hard to disrupt free and democratic poll course with its cheap and provocative actions.
The CM added that there were reports where Akali workers had threatened voters to stay home. He said faced with approaching defeat, the SAD-BJP combine had stooped to historic low in a desperate attempt to seize municipal elections.
Capt alleged that the opposition had used all possible tactics like open threats to misleading statements and rumours to threatening voters. But they failed miserably as voters meted out a
befitting punishment to them.
The high turnout had shown voters' political maturity and courage in fighting wicked designs of the SAD-BJP combine and AAP, he said, adding that people had not forgotten what Akalis had done for 10 years and had responded by voting them out of power in the assembly elections.
He said the feudal Akali practice of holding sangat darshans had kept development out of the state and the AAP had come to Punjab like a summer storm but had been completely decimated with no apparent hope of revival.
