Chitta, Siddhu Moosewala and allegations that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann reeked of alcohol in Parliament… Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched an all-out attack against Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday as he kicked off his party’s election campaign.
“The AAP formed the government after people placed their trust in the party and Bhagwant Mann. What promise did it make? That it will end the drug menace in Punjab. I want to ask the AAP, from which corner of the state has it wiped out drugs?
Gandhi said. The Congress leader also said that people deserve a government that works for Punjab, “not like AAP, which is run from Delhi”. “We will run the government from the soil of Punjab, with neither the home minister nor a former chief minister of Delhi interfering,” Gandhi said.
On Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government is willing to convene a special session of Parliament to hold discussions on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, daring the opposition to join the argument.
Addressing an ‘Insaaf Rally’ here, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha also reiterated his challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an open debate on the latter’s charge that Congress is anti-national. “In Lok Sabha, he (Mann) used to crack jokes sitting with us. I am not saying Bhagwant Mann should not consume alcohol; it is his personal matter.
At 11 am, he used to smell of alcohol.
But if you want to fight drugs, the chief minister can’t get intoxicated every evening,” the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha said.
“Many years back, I had said that drugs are spreading in Punjab. The BJP and the Akali Dal at that time said Rahul Gandhi does not know anything about Punjab, downplaying the drug menace. Today, ‘chitta’ (adulterated heroin) is a major issue in the state,” Gandhi said, sounding Congress’ poll bugle ahead of the Punjab elections due early next year.
