Youth to get priority in ticket distribution: Navjot Singh Sidhu

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 16

Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Navjot Singh Sidhu has promised higher representation to youth in the Assembly elections due early next year. “Ticket distribution among youth would be higher by one and a half times than the last time,” he announced.

Talent is nothing if it is not controlled, disciplined and harnessed !! Will change the system which is slaved to business, money, power and legacy by honouring merit and giving priority to young talent !! pic.twitter.com/vLQUkAGJYi

— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) August 17, 2021

After unfurling the Tricolour at Congress Bhawan here, Sidhu, addressing party’s youth workers, accused the previous SAD-BJP regime of patronising mafias in the state. Sidhu said Punjab used to earn only Rs 40 crore per annum from the mining sector, while Telangana earned Rs 47 crore a week from it.

He further said he would eliminate the word ‘mafia’ from Punjab’s map if he ever got “power of people”.

The PCC president said Tamil Nadu had been earning Rs 36,000 crore from the liquor business despite 50 per cent of consumption as compared to that of Punjab.“But we have been earning just Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 crore for the past 20 years,” Sidhu said.

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