Eliminating drugs will be my top priority, says Cong candidate

Manav Mander
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, September 28

Even though Opposition has been labelling Capt Sandeep Singh Sandhu as an outside from the time he was declared candidate by the Congress from the Dakha assembly segment for the forthcoming assembly byelections, he said, “I am not from Pakistan or Euthopia. I am from Punjab, born and brought up here and very much Punjabi.”Asserting that development of the area and complete elimination of drugs will be his top-most priorities, Sandhu today said carrying out the development was the duty of a legislator and it was no favour to the people of the constituency.

“Making parks or installing street lights was the duty, but the real problem that is grappling the constituency is of drugs. Families are losing their sons to drugs in the constituency even today. I have met a majority of sarpanches from the constituency and will be meeting the remaining in the coming days to chalk a plan to work upon it and solve the issues faced by the people of the constituency,” said Sandhu.

“All of us know that this particular area was worst-hit by the problem of drugs and its total elimination will be his-top most priority,” he said, while disclosing that during the past several years, he had met dozens of people from the Dakha assembly segment who had lost one or the other of their dear ones to the drugs.

The Congress candidate asserted that development was the right of the people and the duty of an MLA and it was no favour to anyone. “After all, this is why people elect MLAs,” he said, while adding that an MLA should not need to tell people that he did this and that for them, rather people should know it themselves.

“Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has given me a specific mandate to work for and serve the people of Dakha and I feel honoured to take this responsibility,” he said while hoping that he will get a chance to represent Dakha in the state legislature.