Congress president Sonia Gandhi while launching the Congress campaign in the poll bound Punjab lashed out at the SAD-BJP government in Punjab for blocking development of the state. The UPA Chairperson while addressing a massive public rally in Kapurthala urged the voters to replace the anti-poor government for all-round development of the state with a Congress Government.
Sonia Gandhi started her speech with a salute to the holy town of Sultanpur Lodhi (a subdivision of Kapurthala district) where Guru Nanak Dev spent about 14 years of his life and attained enlightenment. Sonia Gandhi alleged the SAD-BJP government created a big hindrance in the development of the state as it had not let Central schemes to get implemented here.
The Congress President said that the Centre had provided funds of several thousand crores to the SAD-BJP government but it did not allow these funds to reach to the common man. Giving figures, she said the Centre provided Rs 5,000 crore under the MGNREGA scheme, but the SAD-BJP government utilised only Rs 526 crore. Had the Centre not provided it the money, the SAD-BJP government would have to put an end to its atta-dal scheme, added Sonia Gandhi.
Attacking the SAD-BJP government time and again in her address, Sonia Gandhi alleged it had not cared even a bit for the poor. Had this government cared for the poor, the number of BPL families could not have increased during the past five years of its rule. It formed only those policies that benefited the people in the government and their confidants, she added. All sections of the society, including farmers and industrialists, had been fed up with the SAD-BJP government, quipped Sonia Gandhi.
Whatever development the state had seen since Independence was during the Congress regimes only, claimed Sonia Gandhi. Be it the RCF at Kapurthala or big dams in Punjab, they were built by the Congress governments, she said.
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