Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said the Bhagwant Mann led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government had completed its half term but had done nothing for Punjab and Punjabis. It said the AAP government had miserably failed to deliver on law and order, controlling the spread of drugs, ameliorating condition of farmers and improving health and education infrastructure. “The AAP government has also led Punjab into a debt trap”, the SAD added.
Addressing a press conference here, SAD Chief Spokesman Arshdeep Singh Kler said during the first half of its term, the AAP government had presided over the breakdown of law and order with gangsters calling the shots and extortions and targeted killings becoming the order of the day.
He said the situation was such that the AAP government had admitted in the high court that cases of extortions and targeted killings had increased after the Punjab Police facilitated dreaded gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s interview while in police custody. “Nobody is safe in the State with even snatchings and robberies being on the rise”. Mr Kler said due to this there was a flight of industry from the State even as no investment was coming in.
Mr Kler said the AAP government had also failed to control the spread of drugs in the state. “Today drugs are available on delivery because ruling party Ministers, MLAs and other leaders have teamed up with these drug dealers to mint money”. He said that even the police was being prevented from taking action against this drug mafia.
The SAD leader said similarly then farming community was suffering because contrary to claims of the chief minister of giving compensation before the start of Girdwari to farmers for their crop loss, farmers had failed to get single penny for their successive crop losses.
Mr Kler said the condition of health and education was also before the people as CM himself was claiming that it was easy to bunk government schools and team up to fight with fellow students instead of studying in these schools. He said the AAP government had failed to open even a single new school and Meritorious schools opened by the erstwhile Badal government had been repackaged as Schools of Eminence.
Mr Kler said the health sector was deteriorating with rural health centres being closed to open Aam Aadmi clinics which had failed to benefit the common man. He said when the Chief Minister had to be air lifted for treatment in Delhi hospital instead of Aam Admi Clinics or local hospitals, one could easily understand what the condition of local health centre was.
Asking Bhagwant Mann to resign as CM for his complete failure on all fronts including pushing the State into financial bankruptcy by borrowing an unprecedented Rs one lakh crore during the first half of the term, Advocate Kler said that Bhagwant Mann had completely ruined Punjab.