Congress warms up for MC elections

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 22

Even as the final schedule for the Municipal Corporation, committee and council elections is yet to be finalised, and SAD-BJP leaders are busy issuing statements against each other, Congress leadership in Bathinda has finally woken up to the election scene and has begun conducting nukkad meetings in the city.

Aiming to strengthen the party at the booth level and apparently choosing candidates with a clean image and purpose to serve the people of their wards, former MLA and general secretary of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, Harminder Singh Jassi, has begun holding meetings in wards.

Jassi said Congress was in the opposition both at the Centre and the state and would not allow the ruling governments to go ahead with their anti-people plans and policies.

He spoke about the problem of habit forming substances in the state and accused the ruling state alliance for pushing the youth towards this menace.

He called upon city residents to vote against the ruling alliance candidates in the upcoming Municipal Corporation elections the way they had done during the Lok Sabha elections when Harsimrat Kaur Badal somehow managed to scrap through to win the elections.

Stressing on the importance of having leaders with a clean image in the political system, Jassi exhorted the voters to choose a new entrants with a clean image than voting for a veteran politician with a corrupt image.