PATIALA, April 15: Senior Congress leader and party candidate from Patiala Ms Preneet Kaur today said that the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh believed in the politics of development and not vendetta. She said, that is why there was an atmosphere of peace without fear prevailing in the state since the Congress formed the government in 2017.
Addresing a well attended workers meeting at village Rakhra here today, she said, ever since Capt Amarinder took over as the Chief Minister in 2017, he ensured that the government’s entire focus and attention was towards development and not fixing people in false cases.
The former union minister of state for external affairs pointed out, the Akali government during its ten year rule between 2007 and 2017 had let lose a reign of terror by slapping false cases on Congress workers. She said, while the Congress government ensured that all the false cases were cancelled, it did not resort to any vendetta or vindictive politics.
Ms Kaur said, this was the time for taking Punjab forward and getting rid of the problems like drugs, crime and unemployment. She pointed out, after Capt Amarinder took over, there was a feel good atmosphere and the industry and investors had started returning to Punjab. “Otherwise during the previous ten years of Akali-BJP regime the industry had moved out and no investors were coming to the state”, she added.
Appealing people to vote for the Congress, she said, the last five years of the BJP rule had ruined all the institutions in the country. She said, the BJP government had taken care of the interests of just few big industrialists, while the common man was suffering.
She recalled the public welfare schemes of the UPA government under Dr Manmohan Singh which had benefitted the common man. “Now is the time to make corrections and ensure that people friendly government is in place at the centre which takes care of the common man and not just a few rich only”, she said.
Ms Kaur was accompanied by local MLA from Samana, Rajinder Singh, Harbans Singh Daderha, Harmesh Goyal, Dharam Singh, Lali Kishengarhia, Surinder Kherki and others.