Chandigarh: Taking a dig at the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab for deputing six ministers for the Sangrur by-election, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said, even if they depute all their ministers besides two Chief Ministers Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal, still they will face the worst ever defeat here. “They may need to depute the entire cabinet and still not win”, he remarked.
Warring also defended the party’s reference to Sidhu Moosewala’s murder during the campaign. “We have lost a promising international star in such a brutal way and that too after the AAP government withdrew his security and you expect us to keep quiet”, he remarked, when some reporters drew his attention to mentioning Moosewala’s murder during the campaigning. “Why are people getting defensive about it?” he asked.
Addressing various public meetings in support of the party candidate Dalvir Goldy, Warring said, the very fact that the AAP needed to depute six ministers and all its MLAs for the campaigning, proves beyond any doubt that the party is shaken and is fearing worst ever defeat in the constituency that was represented by Mann till three months ago. “If they had really done what they had promised, why would they need to depute so many people?”
he asked while claiming that people of Sangrur had realized that they had sent a wrong person to parliament twice. “You have got a golden chance to correct your mistake and send a dynamic, energetic and promising youth leader Dalvir Goldy to the parliament”, Warring said amid cheering crowds. The PCC president asked what had happened to the AAP promise of providing a monthly stipend of Rs 1000 to every woman in Punjab.
“What happened to 300 units of free power?” he asked, while adding, “instead of making power cheap, the AAP government made liquor cheap for the obvious reasons”. Warring disclosed that the Congress party’s candidate had been getting a huge response from the crowds as they had now realized the difference between him (Goldy) and the person they used to send to parliament during the last two elections.
