Law of the jungle prevailing in Punjab: Badal

Chandigarh: Former Punjab Chief Minister and Akali supremo

Parkash Singh Badal today described the first two months of Congress

Government  in Punjab as  “the summer of broken promises , failures,

lawlessness , sacrileges,    murders and  vendetta against political

rivals.  Three dozen suicides and a sacrilege  every other day is the

highlight of this period during which government has already thrown

all its promises into the dustbin.”

“No one expected them to perform miracles which they had promises to

perform  but no one expected them to fail so miserably so soon and

with such admission of helplessness,“ said Mr Badal.

In a statement on the completion of two months of Capt Amarinder

Singh Government in Punjab, Mr Badal said, “They formed this

government with four main promises: Stoppage of acts of sacrilege,

Drug eradication, loan waiver to farmers, jobs to every youth. They

have done nothing so far except PR stunts on any of the four fronts.

In fact, they give the impression of being the first government which

looks like throwing up in the first two months itself, ” Mr Badal

said.

“Where is Karaza Kurki Khatam and Fasal di poori rakam” and where is

“ik parivar, ik rozgar? Why are sacrileges on the increase? Have they

controlled drug menace beyond what we had done? Can they name even one

thing on which they have even tried to perform seriously to fulfill

their promises ? In fact, they have even stopped talking about these

now’ said Mr Badal.

Condemning the wave of repression and vendetta let loose by

government machinery in connivance with the ruling party, Mr Badal

said “ It is jungle raj in Punjab now. There is no rule of law and

there is no law and order in the state. People have been forgotten and

all promises made to them have been broken. Punjab already looks like

an abandoned   state where the rule of the jungle prevails ”  said Mr

Badal in a statement here.These 60 days are only a trailer of the bigger failure    which

this government will be in 60 months, if they last that long”, said

the  five time   Chief Minister of Punjab.

“The only thing that people have seen in these two months is an ugly

power struggle and  a brazen war of succession in the ruling party.

This war of succession  is sapping all their energies and they have no

time or energy left to attend to the problems of the people or issues

of governance.  There is a Chief Minister  and there are three de

facto Chief Ministers in this government, each trying to prove that he

is the real power center. All their time is used up in this ugly race

for the top post , that too when the incumbent is still in chair. That

is all that will be remembered of the first 60 days of this

government. And nothing is likely to change in the 54 months to come

,” said Mr Badal in a statement here .

The former Chief Minister said that he had kept quiet for two months

hoping that the new government  would at least make a beginning

towards fulfillment of its   promises and putting an end to the

tendency for political violence let loose against Akali workers by the

ruling party. “I was hoping that they would at least make a good

beginning based on the countless promises they had made. But it is

clear now that they are not even talking of those promises. They are

talking only of excuses to run away from  these promises. I knew they

were never serious about these promises but I did not expect them to

sink so low so soon.”

Commenting  on the completion of two months of the Congress

government in the state, the former Chief Minister said, “Forget about

fulfilling promises, they have not even    started working on finding

ways to  meet them. They have already admitted their failure to fulfil

a sacred oath to finish drugs in four weeks. Now, they have started

talking about the impossibility of waiving farmers loans and of

inability to give  jobs to the youth . Banks are refusing to extend

loans as the government is refusing to fulfill its promise of repaying

the farmers loans.  Three dozen farmers have committed suicides which

is proof of how little faith farmers have in the promises made by this

government. They have gone back on the promissory notes on farmers

loans and that has set off  extreme frustration among farmers. Even

they payment for wheat procured has been delayed.’

Mr Badal said    three sections feel most betrayed by this

government – the farmers, the youth  and the poor section of society.

They have let all three because apart from going back on their promise

for an unconditional loan waiver, they have also forgotten about their

promise of giving jobs one youth in every family in the state, which

comes to roughly 60 lakh jobs. Despite tall talk, they ave not been

able to bring even a single ruppess worth of investment promise in the

state from any big business or industrial house.

“The fact is that they have no time away fro setlling political scores

thrugh violence.The only thing that has been making the headlines in these two months

are the rivalries among leaders who look at the themselves as possible

successors to the present incumbent . The pity is that this war of

succession has started even before the “monarch” has found time to

settle down.”

Mr Badal said that the Congress formed the government on the

basis of tall promises and false allegations“ Not a single promise

they made before elections has been fulfilled, not a single decision

on development taken, not a single welfare measure started. A

government that promised to deliver in four weeks has spent two months

going back on  all its promises  and inventing excuses for its

failure.”

—PTC News