FEROZEPUR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced that the forthcoming SAD government would end the scourge of gangsters and drug traffickers by declaring them as terrorists and dealing with them using the full force of the law.
The SAD president was addressing a huge rally in Ferozepur Rural constituency as part of the party’s Punjab Bachao campaign. Congratulating halka incharge Joginder Singh Jindu for the record show he said it had also made it clear that Punjabis were fed up of all Delhi based parties, did not want to experiment anymore and had decided to form a government solely of the SAD in the State.
Mr Sukhbir Badal said gangsters and drug lords were holding Punjab to ransom and the Aam Aadmi Party government and chief minister Bhagwant Mann had failed to rein in these anti-social elements. “I feel the time has come to bring in legislation to deal with this twin menace. Accordingly once a SAD government is formed we will bring in legislation to deny bail to gangsters and drug lords besides seizing their properties. I advise them to leave Punjab or be ready to face complete eradication under the law”.
Asserting that the chief minister was even indulging in flip-flops on the sensitive issue of killing of two police personnel on the international border with Pakistan, Mr Badal said “first the government was clueless about the death of one ASI and a head constable at the Adhian check post in Gurdaspur. Then the chief minister lauded their supreme sacrifice and announced Rs 1 crore ex gratia grant to their families. Now he is claiming that the two officers could have died following a scuffle between themselves. This kind of mis-governance is symptomatic of the AAP government with the chief minister busy in Gujarat serving Arvind Kejriwal instead of the people of Punjab”.
The SAD president also condemned the AAP government for indulging in thuggery by launching the ‘Punjab Rasoi’ scheme after selling government land at throwaway prices. He said after not implementing this scheme for four years, the AAP government was using it as a desperate gambit to influence Punjabis in the run up to the 2027 assembly elections. “Suck gimmicks cannot save AAP’s sinking ship”, he asserted.