India Needs Stable Centre Which PM Is Already Providing: Amarinder
Mumbai: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are important as the country needs a stable and strong government which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is already providing.
The Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) chief was addressing a meeting of party candidates contesting the Punjab Assembly elections in February.
A PLC release said state BJP general secretary Subhash Sharma also attended the meeting.
Singh said, given the geopolitical situation prevailing in the world in the wake of the Russo-Ukraine war, the country needs stable, mature and strong leadership, which Prime Minister Modi is providing.
Singh said the PLC and its ally BJP will contest the elections jointly for the four municipal corporations of Ludhiana, Patiala, Amritsar and Jalandhar.
The meeting took stock of the current situation in the state and also reviewed the performance of party candidates in the last assembly elections.
Notably, the PLC failed to win a single seat in Punjab in the last elections. The Aam Aadmi Party returned to power by winning 92 of the 117 assembly seats in the state.
Congress won 18, SAD 3, PLC’s ally BJP 2 and BSP 1. An independent also won.
Singh said, while the people of Punjab had voted overwhelmingly for the Aam Aadmi Party with great hope, “there is already a greater disenchantment against the government than expected”.
“The AAP government has not only backed down on many promises and promises but has also hurt the pride of Punjabis by usurping their power and rights,” he alleged.
“Punjabi will never tolerate an outsider like Arvind Kejriwal, who runs the government from Delhi,” Singh said.
He narrated how “Kejriwal was holding meetings of Punjab officials in Delhi and issuing orders to them”.
“It is unconstitutional and it is unacceptable,” he said while adding, “the way Kejriwal is running the government, he will run Punjab into the ground”.
Responding to the demands of party leaders that he should start moving across the state, Amarinder said, he will soon be announcing his statewide programme. In the first round, he said, he will visit all the district headquarters followed by assembly segments.
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