He was interacting on the sidelines after a meeting with MLAs, zone in-charges and heads of frontal organizations of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) from Patiala here ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday mocked Prime Minister's "Main Bhi Chowkidar" campaign describing it as a 'jumla' (rhetoric) which will not solve any problem of the people of the country.
The BJP has intensified its "Main bhi chowkidar" (I too am watchman) campaign with Modi and other party leaders, including its president Amit Shah prefixing the word chowkidar to their names in their Twitter profile.
Modi's Twitter account profile identified him as "chowkidar Narendra Modi" as did other BJP leaders in a coordinated campaign against Gandhi's sustained "Chowkidar Chor Hai" jibe at the prime minister over the Rafale deal.
"Such slogans do not help fill the stomachs of our poor people, they do not give jobs to our youth," Amarinder Singh said in an informal chat with mediapersons here.
He was interacting on the sidelines after a meeting with MLAs, zone in-charges and heads of frontal organizations of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) from Patiala here ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
The meeting had been convened to review the party's preparedness in the Patiala constituency, which is presently represented by rebel AAP MP Dharamvira Gandhi.
The "jumla party" "failed" to deliver on any promise all these years, and was now resorting to more "jumlebaazi" in a desperate bid to win votes, Singh said hitting out at the BJP.
"The people of India are fed up with these hollow slogans and promises. They wanted to know what the BJP-led government had done for them in the last five years," he added.
Asking the PPCC to be fully prepared for the parliamentary polls, Singh said he was confident the party would win all the 13 seats in Punjab, which goes to polls in the final phase. "The Congress is in a very strong position in the state," he said.
