Capt Amarinder spells out positive agenda for development

AMRITSAR : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today declared that the party will reach out to the people with positive agenda of development and peace for the coming elections. He said, the Akalis would have done better if they had counted their achievements, if any, at their ‘Sarkari Rallies’ than resorted to “Congress and Amarinder bashing”.
“Today people of Punjab want peace and development, youth want jobs, farmers want to save their agriculture and trade and industry need to be saved for generating jobs and we are going to work towards that end only”, he said, while addressing a press conference, after paying obeisance at Darbar Sahab and Durgiana Mata Mandir here today. It was his first visit to Amritsar after becoming the PCC president. He also visited the Ram Tirath Temple to pay his obeisance there.
Capt Amarinder also promised to end the Badals’ monopoly over and misuse of religious institutions. “The next SGPC elections will see the end of Badals’ monopoly of misuse of this institution, which was set up after a long struggle and so many sacrifices”, he asserted.
The PCC president reiterated that the sacrilege incident was deliberately orchestrated by the Badals as an attempt at “controlled destabilisation” in the state, which eventually went out of their control, to divert public attention from the farmers’ agitation and other failures. “If an independent and impartial inquiry is conducted the buck will stop right at the Badals”, he said, while adding, that is why the party was demanding a probe by a sitting Supreme Court or a High Court judge. He maintained that the Congress will try to reach out to people more with policy and programmes than holding too many big rallies. Asked about his announcement to hold public rally at Bathinda, the PCC president said, he wanted to take over at a public function which could be attended by maximum number of people.