Kickstarting the Congress poll campaign from chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s home turf, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched an-all-out attack on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab over drugs, gangster violence, and farmers’ issues.
He is lying as he won’t be home minister by then. The assembly elections are due in Punjab early next year. Rahul also reiterated his challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an open debate on the latter’s charge that Congress is anti-national. “Now, every other day there is a drug-related crime , and the Punjab government is unable to control the menace. 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? “Amit Shah is promising to end it (drug menace) by next three years. “The whole country knows that Amit Shah has raised his own gangsters in jails. Rahul alleged that AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal was pulling the strings from Delhi, leaving Mann unable to take independent decisions. Did people of Punjab choose you for this?
“People need a government that works for Punjab—not like AAP, which is run from Delhi,” said the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha while addressing the party’s Insaaf Rally at Phaguwala village in Sangrur district. “Come anywhere, sit with me and debate,” he said. Rahul said. My assessment is the BJP government will not even last a year”, he said. Rahul said Shah has no right to talk about drugs and law and order. So he better not talks about drugs, or law and order,” he said. The Congress leader also said that people deserve a government that works for Punjab. “We will run the government from the soil of Punjab, with neither the home minister nor a former chief minister of Delhi interfering,” Rahul said, urging the crowd to vote for Congress for jobs and a drugs-free Punjab. Targeting the AAP government over drug issue, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said: “Is this your good governance?
Earlier you destroyed Delhi and now you have destroyed Punjab”.
Arguing that the AAP was the B-team of the BJP, the Congress president said, wherever the Congress stood good chances of a victory, like in the states of Gujarat and Goa, the AAP jumped in to divide the anti-BJP vote and help the BJP win.
