Bathinda, Apr 26 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday alleged that Delhi based parties were trying to capture Punjab in the same manner as the 'East India Company' (EIC) and urged the people to vote for the SAD to ensure peace, communal harmony and development.
Badal, who interacted with members of the District Bar Association and Taxation lawyers, besides holding meetings with the Northern Cooler and Fan manufacturing association, Hotels and Restaurant Association and members of the Christian community, said “this is a most sensitive point in the history of Punjab. It is of utmost importance that Punjabis get together to save Punjab from Delhi-based parties who are only concerned about winning seats and least concerned about Punjabis or their problems.
"Punjab has suffered earlier also at the hands of National parties, but this time the situation is grave. Punjab is not only afflicted by a breakdown of law and 0rder as well as communal tensions, but has been bankrupted by successive Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) governments,: he said.
Badal alleged the situation is such that each and every section of society is suffering, be it farmers, youth, the poor or the traders. .
Urging Punjabis to “save Punjab now before it is too late”, he said “the SAD is the only answer to the ills afflicting Punjab”,
He said only a regional party can fight for the rights of the Punjab people.
In a blistering attack on the "AAP-Congress alliance" in the state, Badal said “the AAP and Congress are aligned in Punjab also like in the rest of the country. Only here they have not gone into an open alliance as they feel by doing so the anti-incumbency of the AAP government will affect both their chances”.
He urged Punjabis to understand this and reject both the parties at the hustings. UNI GS SSP