Chandigarh, April 29 (IANS). Bharatiya Janata Party’s national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Wednesday termed the special session of the Punjab Assembly to be held on May 1 as wasteful expenditure and a burden on the government exchequer.
He said that the Bhagwant Mann government is misusing a constitutional institution like the Assembly not only to manage its weakening party and unstable MLAs, but also to divert attention from the growing public anger in Punjab over its failures, incompetence, broken promises, mafia rule, hooliganism and the web of extortion.
Chugh said that before calling such a session, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will have to tell the public what his so-called ‘transformation’ has achieved in four years. Corruption, lawlessness and internal strife have pushed his own party into deep distrust.
He said if the government is really serious, it should stop showing off on Labor Day and immediately release Rs 15,000 crore as dearness allowance and pending payments to employees.
Targeting both Congress and Aam Aadmi Party, Chugh said that both the parties are engaged in a fixed political contest in Punjab.
He said that they are friends in Delhi and pretend to be rivals in Punjab, misleading the public. Congress has completely failed as the opposition.
Taking aim at opposition leader Pratap Singh Bajwa, Chugh said Bajwa should stop clapping at the chief minister’s jokes and focus on questioning the government instead of becoming part of the Aam Aadmi Party’s loot conspiracy.
Chugh further said that the truth is that the Aam Aadmi Party was born out of the sins of the Congress and came to power in Delhi with the support of the Congress. He also said that both the parties had fought the 2024 Lok Sabha elections together.
Responding to the ‘traitor’ talk, Chugh said that Punjab knows who the real traitors are. He was referring to those who shattered the dreams of the state, enabled the mining mafia to loot Rs 20,000 crore and snatched away the future of the youth.
–IANS
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