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While taking on the opposition head -on on host of issues , former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh said the BJP is the only party that can take care of the state’s security and economic challenges and he slammed the Congress and AAP of making poll promises which can’t be fulfilled. Amarinder Singh also claimed his party the Punjab Lok Congress’s alliance with the BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal-Sanyukt for the next year’s Assembly polls is in the national and state’s interest.
The former chief minister had formed his own party, Punjab Lok Congress, after quitting the ruling Congress in the state following his unceremonious exit as the CM last year. Addressing a public meeting after inducting Congress leader Raj Numberdar into his party here, Singh said Punjab faces multiple challenges, particularly on security and economic front.
“I found the BJP as the only party that can take care of both things, he said as he welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab’s Ferozepur on Wednesday. He said having known Prime Minister Modi for a long time, he had seen him concerned about Punjab and the Punjabis. Later addressing a press conference, the former CM lashed out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu for taking people of the state for a ride by making promises which they knew cannot be fulfilled.
Referring to Sidhu’s poll promises he made to women and girl students, Singh wondered whether he realised their financial implications. “The cumulative debt of Punjab is already about Rs 5 lakh crore and I do not know from where Sidhu and Kejriwal will get the money to support these schemes,” he said, adding that Sidhu a month ago had opposed freebies announced by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Arvind Kejriwal. Sidhu does not have a permanent stand on anything, he added.
