Capt promising moon to people: Badal

Tribune News Service/PTI

Jalandhar, June 24

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today took a dig at Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh, saying he was "trying to replicate" him by launching s mass outreach campaign in the hope of becoming CM, but his dream will "never be fulfilled".

Badal said Amarinder was "promising moon" to everyone knowing very well that he "could not form" the government. "He is trying to replicate me. The most inaccessible Captain is now sweating it out in scorching heat in the hope of becoming the Chief Minister of the state," he said on the sidelines of his Sangat Darshan in Nakodar Assembly segment.

Badal was taking a swipe at Amarinder's recently-started six-month mass outreach campaign "Halke Vich Captain" under which the Punjab Congress chief will spend a day in each of all 117 Assembly constituencies to establish a direct contact with voters.

Taking on the Congress on the SYL, he said: "Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had laid the foundation of the SYL canal to ruin the state. Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh had welcomed the move." The CM said: "The people of Punjab should be willing to make sacrifices to save state waters. It's an issue on which the state's economy and various other factors are directly or indirectly related. Punjab's prosperity is dependent on its waters."