Friday, January 21, 2011

Partap Singh Bajwa buries the hatchet with PPCC chief

Gurdaspur : Former Chief Minister and PPCC chief Amarinder Singh indulged in his favourite pastime of Akali bashing using some of the choicest of Punjabi proverbs and idioms against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Badal at a public meeting held here today. The event assumes significance as it was Amarinder’s first rally in the Majha region ever since he took over the reigns of the PPCC. “Today’s rally is a sure indicator to the fact that the Congress will improve its tally in Majha in the next Assembly election,” remarked PPCC spokesman Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa. The rally also saw Gurdaspur MP Partap Singh Bajwa, for long considered Amarinder’s bete noire, burying the hatchet with the PPCC chief. In his brief speech Bajwa said, “Congressmen in Majha may be a divided lot. But today all factions buried their differences to ensure the success of the rally.” The MP also went to the extent of announcing Amarinder Singh as the next Chief Minister. Amarinder Singh directed most of his verbal volleys at the Punjab Chief Minister and his son, Sukhbir Badal, mocking them repeatedly. He said, “Sukhbir Badal, I promise that a day will come when I will finish you politically. You and your cohorts are compromising Punjab’s interests for your own personal gains.” Amarinder also spoke about formulating a new agriculture policy if his party came to power. “I want to take the farmers out of the vicious debt trap. This can be done only if a new agriculture policy is put in place.” The former Chief Minister also pointed out that during his previous tenure he had ensured the commitment of big industrial groups, including the Reliance Industries, to invest in farming so that the income of the farmers could be enhanced. “But this government played petty politics and cancelled all those projects,” he added. Senior Congressmen who were present included Partap Bajwa, Santosh Chowdhury, Rana Gurjit Singh, PS Bhinder, Arvind Khanna, Ashwani Sekhri, Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa, Major Amardeep Singh, Tripit Rajinder Bajwa, Sukhjinder Randhawa, Naresh Puri, Harminder Jassi, Raman Bhalla, Raman Bahl, Aruna Chowdhury, SS Chottepur, Ajay Verma, Kartik Wadhera, Salamat Masih, Joginder Chinna, Neeraj Salhotra and Anu Gandotra.

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