Nitin Jain
Ludhiana, February 13
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday addressed an election rally in favour of the BJP alliance candidates at Daresi ground here.
Highlights
*Amit Shah, sporting a saffron turban and a shawl, begins speech by raising ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ slogan and exhorting public to raise both hands to pledge drug-free Punjab
*Introduces BJP allies candidates by making them stand on the dais
*Remembers tenth Sikh Guru Gobind Singh
*Punjab is India’s soul as it made India self-sufficient in food production
*Shah pays tributes to Kartar Singh Sarabha
*Ensure victory of BJP allies candidates, we will ensure Ludhiana’s bicycle go worldwide
*Raises unemployment, drugs and farmers’ plight as main issues faced by Punjab
*Targets CM Charanjit Singh Channi and AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal, accuses them of ruining Punjab
*Says if Kejriwal comes, he will release all terrorists
*Punjab needs a serious, sensitive and powerful government, it’s no comedian’s job
*Raises national security issue
*Punjab youth is omnipresent across the country
OROP given by PM Narendra Modi, not by Congress, which ruled India for over 3 decades
*Modi raised defence budget three-times in India
*The person (Channi) who cannot ensure safe route of PM, can he secure entire Punjab and its people
*Channi has no moral authority to rule for even a second
*Punjab needs a government that strengthens the hands of Modi at the Centre
*If you elect NDA government in Punjab, will free border state of drugs in five years
*Parties that ruled Punjab so far have made the soil barren
*We will change crop pattern to once again Punjab soil fertile
*Modi government spent Rs 300 crore to celebrate Guru Gobind Singh’s 350th birth anniversary, opened Kartarpur Corridor and initiated several other steps to recognise the contribution of Sikhs and Punjab
*Announced Veer Baal Diwas to remember Sahibzadas every year
*Raises Sikh genocide, terming as heinous crime by Congress
*Recalls Rajiv Gandhi’s statement that when big tree falls, the earth shakes
*BJP ensured justice to Sikh riots’ victims
*Ludhiana was made Smart City by Modi
*The Modi Government made maximum purchase of crops on MSP and paid farmers directly through their bank accounts
*Raises issue of conversions, this cannot be stopped by Channi or Kejriwal, only BJP can stop it
*If BJP votes to power in Punjab, will throw out practice of conversions from state
*Ridicules Kejriwal’s promise to make Punjab drug-free, he instead made Delhi liquor city
*Modi has planned to develop Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar as industrial hubs and make them regain their lost glory of industrial capitals
*Will set up NCB regional centres in four main cities in Punjab to check international drug trafficking in border state
*Announces special incentives to MSMEs
*Will also check mafias dealing in sand, drugs and other trades with iron hand
*Will eliminate all such menaces within five years
*Will develop nawaan Punjab
*Raises slogans of Jai Shri Ram, Sat Sri Akal and Bharat Mata Ki Jai
*Says Punjab not safe under Channi regime
*Concludes his 26-minute speech by urging voters to elect the NDA Government in Punjab
Punjab not safe under Channi regime, says Amit Shah at Ludhiana rally
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