Navjot Singh Sidhu praises Charanjit Singh Channi as 'efficient' CM, woos Dalits at Phagwara rally

Tribune News Service

Phagwara, January 2

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, addressing a rally here on Sunday, said Punjab had got a Dalit CM after seven decades and credited his party (Congress) for the same.“The CM is heading the state with remarkable efficiency. In a short span, he has paved the way for an ‘enterprising’ Punjab and kindled hope for equality and justice for all,” Sidhu said.

Calling the Congress the champion of the underprivileged, he claimed all other parties had failed to provide any significant benefit to the Dalits. “What has the BJP done for them,” he asked, exhorting the people not to be “misled” by those working for certain corporate houses. Sidhu dubbed the Shiromani Akali Dal, Capt Amarinder Singh and BJP as “different sides of the same coin”. Addressing the rally in favour of Phagwara Congress MLA Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal, he claimed Punjab was now changing. “We are moving towards a new Punjab. We are batting for the welfare of Dalits, education, employment and legal guarantee for MSP.”

Amid applause, the Pradesh Congress chief, while attacking BJP’s politics of “divisiveness” and “arm-twisting”, said that this would not work in Punjab, “the land of the Gurus that only knows oneness”.

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