Capt ready for Patiala, Lambi battle

Varinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Mehraj/Talwandi Sabo, Jan 15

PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh today maintained that he would be fighting against both General JJ Singh from Patiala and Parkash Singh Badal from Lambi.

He will be filing his nomination papers from Patiala on January 17 and from Lambi on January 18, the last day for filing nominations.

Amarinder has planned to leave nothing to chance to stage his victory from Lambi. He had despatched his son Raninder Singh Tiku to Lambi to take charge of his campaign early this morning.

Raninder today held an interaction with Congress workers and leaders, while Amarinder kicked off his campaign from his ancestral village Mehraj, near Rampura Phul. Amarinder claimed he would be defeating both SAD candidates from Patiala as well as Lambi.

Holding the Badals responsible for bringing state to its knees with their misgovernance, Amarinder said: “I want to free Punjab the clutches of the Akalis who have been looting the state for the past 10 years.”

He also challenged Kejriwal to contest from Lambi if he was so confident of winning the Punjab polls. “Punjabis will never tolerate cowards like Kejriwal and neither will they allow Akalis to govern them anymore,” he said.

“AAP is a party of outsiders. Their campaign is managed by outsiders as they have no faith in Punjabis,” he alleged. On SAD-BJP’s charge that he believed in merry-making all the times, he said: “I will be working 24 hours a day for seven days a week to bring Punjab back on the path of prosperity.”