Ferozepur, Sep 18 (PTI) Hours after AAP announced a statewide door-to-door outreach campaign from Sunday, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal took potshots, saying “Chittar (sandals)” await the leaders of the ruling party in Punjab.
Speaking at his party’s ‘Punjab Bachao’ rally in Jalalabad on Friday, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief appealed to Punjabis to unite to rid the state of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government.
In Chandigarh, AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Friday announced a statewide door-to-door outreach campaign from Sunday, with 2.68 lakh booth committee members set to reach every household and highlight the work of the Mann government.
Badal said, “Door-to-door chittar (sandals) await all the leaders of AAP. Let them start going to villages and see what happens to them when the police is not there to protect them! People of Punjab who are demanding accountability on drugs and the total collapse of law and order will show them stars during the day.” Addressing a public gathering, Badal promised to create a “New Jalalabad” once the party assumed the government in the state.
“Jalalabad has been ignored by both the previous Congress and the present AAP government. Only SAD can put the constituency back on the rails,” he asserted, while promising to establish a medical and veterinary college in the constituency if SAD comes to power, besides ensuring all farmers tilling land along riverine tracts were granted ownership rights of the same.
Asserting that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann thought he could use the “divide and rule policy” in the forthcoming assembly elections “as he had no achievement to his credit”, Badal said “this time Bhagwant Mann is propping up Waris Punjab De (WPD) party which is actually a virus for Punjab”.
Speaking about how he had given his best to Jalalabad when he was a legislator from the area, Badal said, “You trusted me with your vote and sent me to the Vidhan Sabha. I took it upon myself to make Jalalabad a model constituency.
“Unfortunately, all development work has been at a standstill for nearly 10 years.” PTI COR SUN KSS KSS
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