CM playing divisive card to divert attention: Malik

Our Correspondent

Phagwara, October 17

Punjab BJP president Shwait Malik today accused CM Capt Amarinder Singh of playing religious and divisive cards to vitiate the atmosphere in the state and divert people’s attention from burning issues. The Congress government in the state has failed on every front and Singh has not fulfilled even a single promise, Malik claimed.

Addressing a press conference here, he said that the BJP-SAD combine will win all four Assembly seats that will “prove to be a Waterloo for Amarinder Singh.” The Rajya Sabha MP also alleged that Singh’s “weak policy” led to resurgence of militancy in Punjab. Malik said, “The fact is that militancy is growing in the state. The CM wants to create fear psychosis among the people of the state in order to grind his political axe and derive political mileage.”

Alleging that Singh wants to disturb the Hindu-Sikh unity, Malik said, “The people of Punjab will not allow Capt (Amarinder Singh) to succeed in his evil designs.” Terming the Congress “vishwasghati (betrayer)”, he alleged the CM reneged on his promise of wiping out drugs from the state within four weeks after taking oath with the holy Gutqa Sahib in his hands. Exhorting that it was a contest between performers and non-performers, he listed various achievements of PM Narendra Modi in 100 days of his secondterm. He claimed Capt Amarinder had nothing to mention as his achievement in “1,000 days of his misrule”.

He hailed the Centre for succeeding in abolishing Article 370 in J&K and passing a Bill against Triple Talaaq. Punjab’s four Assembly seats — Phagwara, Dakha, Mukerian and Jalalabad — are going to polls on October 21.