Amarinder asks Congressmen to hit Akalis
Tuesday November 01, 2011 07:16:27 PM,
IANS
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Talwandi Sabo (Punjab): Setting an aggressive political tone for the likely assembly
election in February-March next year, Punjab Congress president
and former chief minister Amarinder Singh asked Congress workers
Tuesday to pick up 'lathis' (sticks) against the ruling Shiromani
Akali Dal workers.
Accusing Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir
Singh Badal, who is the Akali Dal president and Punjab deputy
chief minister, of running a dictatorial and corrupt regime on the
lines of dictators like Muammar Gadaffi, Saddam Hussein and Hosni
Mubarak, Amarinder said that the Badal regime would be overthrown
in the forthcoming elections in a democratic way.
"Pick up lathis against the Akalis and hit them twice if they
tried to hit them once," Amarinder Singh said in this Sikh holy
city near Bathinda town in south-west Punjab Tuesday as he
addressed the 'Punjab Bachao Yatra' (Save Punjab tour) by the
Congress party.
He accused the ruling party of victimizing Congress leaders and
workers.
The event also saw warring leaders of the Congress, including
Amarinder's detractors, former chief minister Rajinder Kaur
Bhattal and senior leader Jagmeet Singh Brar, coming together for
the Congress campaign against the Akali Dal government.
"The Badals should learn some lessons from the fate the dictators
like Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak and earlier Saddam Hussein met.
Gaddafi had amassed billions of dollars but had to run for his
life at the end," Amarinder Singh said.
Amarinder Singh said that Badal had wasted his life even after
becoming chief minister of Punjab four times and had not a single
achievement to his credit.
He said the Badals had built super luxury hotels in Gurgaon worth
hundreds of crores of rupees and had business interests in mining,
cable network, liquor and several other areas.
Congress legislature Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal lashed out
at Badals for wasting the state resources to promote their own
interests.
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