Nitin Jain
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, September 29
Embarking on a two-day visit to Punjab amidst deepening crisis in the ruling Congress, AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Wednesday listed out a five-point agenda for his new Punjab counterpart, Charanjit Singh Channi, and asked him to fulfill all the pending promises made by his predecessor, Capt Amarinder Singh.
Congratulating Channi and spelling out the five-point agenda for him, Kejriwal said the tainted ministers and officers recently appointed on key posts should immediately be sacked and booked, all those accused and masterminds in the Bargari sacrilege incident be arrested within 24 hours, the unemployed should be provided jobs and till the employment is given, unemployment allowance be given to all unemployed youth, all farm loans should be immediately waived, and the controversial power purchase agreements made by the previous SAD-BJP government in the state should be cancelled.
“If Channi is serious about public welfare and has the will to serve them, he should take at least these five decisions in his four-month stint,” asserted Kejriwal, while adding that he had made electricity cheaper, offered water free, and wiped out corruption in his maiden 49-day stint as Delhi CM.
He said the people of Punjab were disillusioned with both the ruling Congress and the opposition SAD as none of them had come up to their expectations. “The present state of affairs in Punjab Congress has made it evident that the ruling party leaders are engaged in the power game without having any concern about public’s woes,” said the AAP supremo, while claiming that his party would provide a pro-public government to Punjab after the next Assembly election.
Evading a direct reply to the AAP’s Punjab CM face, the party supremo said a person of whom the state would be proud of would be made the CM candidate.
Without taking any media queries, Kejriwal said he would interact with the journalists in detail on Thursday.
Arvind Kejriwal begins Punjab visit, gives Channi 5-point agenda to act
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