Chandigarh/Bathinda: Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab Chief Ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann lambasted Rahul Gandhi’s statement that Chief Minister Channi was poor. Mann said that Charanjit Singh Channi, whom Congress has named as its poor chief ministerial candidate, has declared his family’s assets to be Rs 170 crore in his affidavit to the Election Commission. Channi is not poor, he is a billionaire.
Mann said that a man who has Rs 170 crore can be poor only for the people like Rahul Gandhi and not for the common people. Those who are real poor, they do not have food in their houses. They don’t have flour, vegetable and other basic things of kitchen. They have to spend the winters without blankets and quilts. They do not have money for the education and treatment of their children. If someone falls ill at home, they have to take loan.
Rahul Gandhi, who was born in the house of the Prime Minister and a silver spoon, will never know the condition of the poor. Mann reacted to Rahul Gandhi’s statement in which he had said that ‘people will vote after seeing the face’ saying that Rahul Gandhi is absolutely right. This time the people of Punjab will definitely vote after seeing the face. But people will vote after seeing the face of their children, not Charanjit Singh Channi.
People will vote looking up to Bhimrao Ambedkar and Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Taking a jibe at the Congress, Mann said that in 2017 Captain Amarinder Singh of the Maharaja’s family was also described as the leader of the poor, whose doors were then closed for the poor for four and a half years while he sat in his luxurious farm house.
Now in 2021, the Congress presented the billionaire Chief Minister Charanjit Channi, who played the dramatic role of a common man, in front of the people by calling him poor. But this time the people of Punjab have understood the difference between real poor and fake poor. This time the people of Punjab will elect the one who will help them to eradicate poverty, not those who pretend to be poor for votes.
Mann said that it is clear that the Aam Aadmi Party is going to form the government with a huge majority. People of Punjab are fed up with Akali-BJP, Congress and Captain. People want change now and will vote for change this time. March 10th (the day of elections result) will be a historic day for Punjab.
