Stating that this was another form of fraud with the people in the same manner in which chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh had deceived Punjabis by swearing false oaths on the holy Gutka Sahib, former minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said Punjabis would see through this game and would not let this conspiracy succeed.
Addressing a press conference here, Dr Daljit Cheema said, “it is a fact that Congress legislators had told the party high command that they would not be able to enter villages because the State government had not fulfilled any of the promises made to the people. The high command admitted this failure by handing over an eighteen point to-do list to the chief minister. It simultaneously appointed Navjot Sidhu as the Pradesh Congress President to shift the blame for the party’s non-performance on Capt Amarinder ."
Asserting that such cheap political moves would not go down well with Punjabis, Dr Cheema said Navjot Sidhu was part and parcel of the non-performing Congress government. “Sidhu was a minister in the government for half of its term. He should first admit his failure to do anything for the welfare of the people”. He said Sidhu should simultaneously tell Punjabis when they would get an 85,000 crore farm loan waiver as promised by his government and party. He should also disclose when the promised 25 lakh jobs would be given to youth, give a timeline for eradication of the drug menace which had quadrupled during Congress period, tell industry when they would get power at Rs five per unit and when the demands of State government employees would be accepted”.
Dr Cheema said Sidhu was fond of speaking about probity in public life but his main supporters among legislators were those who were the kingpin of the sand and liquor mafia be it Darshan Brar, Kulbir Zira or Madan Lal Jalalpur.
The SAD leader asked Sidhu whether he would tell the chief minister to take action against Darshan Brar for establishing an illegal stone crusher on forest land in Mukerian besides refusing to pay the Rs 1.5 crore penalty imposed on him for sourcing material illegally. “Darshan Brar was singing paeans to you just two days back and it is to be seen whether you side with Punjabis and ask the chief minister to take action against him or extend patronage to the sand mafia”.
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