Badals betrayed state, will ensure their defeat: Capt

Perneet Singh
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, April 25

Vowing to “rid the state of the Badals” by defeating the SAD’s power couple in the Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said the people of Bathinda would punish two-time MP Harsimrat Kaur for “her arrogance, sacrilege cases and betrayal of Punjab while being a Union minister”.

The Chief Minster today accompanied party candidate Amrinder Singh Raja Warring to the DC office for filing his nomination papers.

He said, “Harsimrat has betrayed Punjab and its people by her failure to support the state in its various confrontations against the Centre.”

Confident of accomplishing his “Mission 13” in Punjab, the CM said the people of the state haven’t forgotten Bargari or Kotkapura, which was a “brazen attempt by the Badals to create communal tension in the state”.

He said he had planned to spend two days in Bathinda and two in Ferozepur to campaign against the Badal couple. He said he would expose their lies on drugs and other issues.

On Partap Bajwa’s remark against the move to pin responsibility for electoral performance on ministers and party MLAs, Capt Amarinder said, while the victory or defeat was the responsibility of the entire party, senior leaders had to be held more accountable. He warned that senior leaders found trying to sabotage the prospects of any candidate would have to face consequences.