CORRUPTION HAS INCREASED; THE CLAIM OF EARNING ₹20,000 CRORE FROM MINING HAS PROVEN HOLLOW. EVEN AAP’S OWN MLAS DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE SO-CALLED “EDUCATION REVOLUTION.”
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Punjab BJP President Sunil Jakhar, while commenting on the completion of four years of the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab, said that the government’s main achievements have been the heavy burden of debt on the state and the expansion of gangsterism and drugs.
He said the Chief Minister cannot escape responsibility by calling gangsterism an international problem. According to him, every Punjabi already knows the reality of the government’s performance on this issue. Due to daily criminal incidents, people are living in fear and insecurity. People are receiving extortion calls while the government continues claiming that everything is under control. He added that if the government’s claims of reducing or eliminating drugs were true, then police didn’t have to exhort people to keep night vigil by making village committees .
The state BJP chief also said that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his “super chief minister” are now silent about their election promise of generating ₹20,000 crore from mining. He alleged that illegal mining is happening openly in the state, and the government has no answer about where the money from it is going. He questioned whether the party that once claimed to fight corruption is now running on this very money.
The state BJP chief also said that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and his “super chief minister” are now silent about their election promise of generating ₹20,000 crore from mining. He alleged that illegal mining is happening openly in the state, and the government has no answer about where the money from it is going. He questioned whether the party that once claimed to fight corruption is now running on this very money.
Jakhar further stated that under the pretext of free and cheap electricity, the Punjab State Power Corporation is being pushed toward bankruptcy. He warned that the situation may eventually lead to privatization, and the burden that will fall on Punjab’s consumers afterward is something people cannot even imagine today.
Calling the “education revolution model” a failure, Jakhar said that if changing colors could bring about a revolution, then a chameleon would be the greatest revolutionary. He argued that if AAP leaders truly believed in their education revolution, they would send their own children to government schools. If even their own MLAs do not accept this model, he questioned how the public could believe in it.
The BJP president also alleged that corruption has reached its peak and that the “rates of corruption” have increased. He claimed that on the issue of corruption, the opposition Congress and AAP appear to be working together. He pointed out that the same companies in Rajasthan, accused of colluding with congress leaders in fleecing Punjab government of crores for fabricating bus bodies during the Congress government, are now again being given contracts by the AAP government.
Jakhar added that every section of society is unhappy with the government. Government employees are not receiving their Dearness Allowance (DA), and the government has failed to implement an agricultural policy. Instead, the Chief Minister is saying that the central government should handle the issue of agriculture, even though it falls under the jurisdiction of state governments.
He concluded by saying that the government is surviving only through advertisements. In reality, he claimed, the AAP government has proven to be the worst government in Punjab’s history for the people of the state.