TEHRI AND JANGIPUR, A TRAILER FOR CONGRESS IN ENSUING LOK SABHA POLLS: S...

Patiala, October 15: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, today said that the species of Congress Party was on verge of extinction in India and loss of CM’s son in Tehri and scrapping through in Jangipur despite TMC’s tactical support was

the trailor of Lok Sabha elections for the ruling UPA.

           Speaking to media persons after inducting Mr. Ajay Thapar, a close confidant of Union Minister of State for External Affairs Mrs. Parneet Kaur and Captain Amarinder Singh and 101 Congress families at the residence of Mr. Shaginder Singh Sunny Aulakh, in the fold of Shiromani Akali Dal, Mr. Badal said that the people of the country were fed-up of price rise, revelation of new multi-lakh crore scam every second day and arrogance and disconcern of Congress leadership from the hardships of common public has forced the public to punish Congress Party. Predicting mid-term Lok Sabha polls, Mr. Badal said that UPA-II would not survive in the winter session of Parliament and its allies including NCP has already started shortlisting the candidates for next Lok Sabha polls. Mr. Badal said that SAD was fully prepared for Lok Sabha elections and was preparing to give inning defeat to Congress Party by SAD-BJP capturing all the 13 seats in Punjab. He said that Congress cadre totally demotivated and demoralised and SAD was flooded with the requests from Congress leaders, who were making beeline to join development oriented party SAD.

           Lashing at Rahul for deliberately denigrating the youth of Punjab by dubbing them addicts, Mr. Badal said that half read Congress General Secretary should have gone through the reports as it pertained to the study of a sample of 600 addicts of Amritsar district out of which 73% were in the age group of 16 to 35. Rebutting Congress Leader of House Mr. Sunil Jakhar, Deputy Chief Minister quipped that the study he was quoting must have been conducting on Youth Congress cadre as majority of them were high on the drugs.

          When asked about steps taken by Punjab Government to curb the menace of drugs, Mr. Badal said that BSF under Union Home Ministry has totally failed to check the inflow of drugs and narcotics from Pakistan Border and Punjab Police has redoubled its efforts by intensifying its war against drug lords. “More than 50% of National recovery was made by Punjab Police and that shows the commitment and efforts made by them,” he added. Mr. Badal said that he has ordered forfeiture and auction of properties of drug lords and more than 700 bad elements have already been arrested by Punjab Police.

          When asked about slow progress in Shruti kidnapping case, Mr. Badal said that a team under IG Bathinda was following certain important leads, which cannot be disclosed at this moment. He said that some arrests have been made and police has recovered the vehicle and assured early breakthrough in the case. He said that no Akali leader has been or would be allowed to meddle in the case.

           Announcing a statewide recruitment program, Mr. Badal said that Punjab Government would soon initiate a massive recruitment program to fill 1.5 lakh posts in the Government departments. He said that SAD-BJP Government made 1.25 lakh recruitments in the Government departments purely on merits and said that these recruitment would also be done in most transparent merit based procedure.