Wheel of Congress victory will start moving from Punjab: Bhupesh Baghel blows election bugle
Warring says, over 60 AAP MLAs being dropped
FATEHGARH SAHIB: The Congress today blew the election bugle in Punjab with the party launching the mass mobilization programme at the booth level, ‘harr booth mazboot’ (strengthening each booth). The function was presided over by the general secretary in charge Bhupesh Bhagel and attended by the district, block and booth level office bearers.
Setting the tone for the mobilization Bhagel said that elections in Punjab were quite close and these were going to be the most important elections which are not only being watched across the country, but even outside. He pointed out, Punjab holds an important place in the country.
Asserting that these elections will decide the fate of Punjab, he said, for the Congressmen these had a special significance as for the last five years they had faced intimidation, humiliation and vendetta. He said, it is always the workers who suffer the worst.
Moreover, he added, the Aam Aadmi Party in the state, like the Bharatiya Janata Party at the centre, is the most vindictive party which believes in and practices vendetta politics. That is why it is important to defeat them both. He said the Congress has never believed in vendetta politics.
Noting that the AAP was on the way out, he said, the Congress was the only option for the state. He predicted a five-cornered contest in Punjab this time. He said the Congress was faced with a challenge from two governments; the BJP government at the centre and the AAP in Punjab. They are two sides of the same coin, he remarked, while adding that there will be two more players, the Akalis and the Waris Punjab De.
Exhorting the booth level workers to work hard, he said, the fate of the party depends on them. He said, once the party wins from every booth, this will mean the MLAs will win and the Congress will win and there will be the Congress government in the state. “Once you resolve to be strong to win, no matter how many Modis, Manns or Kejriwals come, nobody can defeat you”, he told the booth level workers amidst thundering cheer and applause.
Quoting senior leader Rahul Gandhi, Baghel said, these elections are going to be a battle for principles and ideology. He said, it is a battle to save the unity, brotherhood, harmony and constitution of the country which are under grave threat. He said, both the BJP and the AAP have no faith in the constitution.
He said, today Punjab is unsafe with drugs being peddled freely and the gangsters ruling the roost. He noted that people are killed in broad daylight with criminals who have no fear of law.
Speaking on the occasion, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said that the AAP government was on the way out. He said Mann was surviving on the Rs 1000 crore advertisement budget. The moment the publicity stops, his oxygen supply will stop and his government will collapse.
Asserting that the Congress party was strong and united, he said, there can always be differences of opinion which is quite natural. He said, while the media was playing up the mere difference of opinion within the Congress, which has already been sorted out, it never mentioned that 6 AAP MPs defected to the BJP and sixty of their MLAs are in touch with the BJP.
He pointed out, no MP or MLA from the Congress defected to the BJP and yet the media was saying there was factionalism in the Congress. He said the AAP was to drop over sixty MLAs for their links with the BJP.
Expressing his profound gratitude to the party leadership, Warring said, he has lived as a Congressman and will die as a Congressman only. He noted that the party had honoured and rewarded him a lot despite being so junior. He said there were more senior and more competent leaders than him in the party like Partap Singh Bajwa, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Charanjit Singh Channi and others, whom he always respects.
Leave aside the PCC presidentship, even if I don’t get the ticket, I will still be with the Congress and die as a Congressman only.
Among those present on the occasion included Shamshrer Singh Dullo, Brahm Mohindra, Dr Amar Singh, Randeep Nabha, Dr Raj Kumar Verka, Henna Caveray, Kuljeet Nagra, Kulbir Zira, Capt Sandeep Sandhu, Surinder Singh, Kasturi Lal Mintoo and various DCC and bock presidents.
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