Chandigarh, Nov 10 — Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Pargat Singh on Tuesday announced that the ‘Punjab Mangda Insaaf’ campaign will be formally launched on November 11.
Through this initiative, the Congress will establish direct communication with people, understand their problems, needs and expectations and raise their concerns effectively.
Speaking to the media here, Pargat Singh said the campaign had already begun with the Insaaf Rally held in Sangrur on November 4. It would now be expanded across Punjab on a much larger scale.
The Congress will engage directly with stakeholders from the IT sector, agriculture, various industries and other sections of society. Senior party leaders will participate in different programmes to understand people's concerns. Special public outreach programmes will be organised across the Malwa, Majha and Doaba regions.
He said campaign committee chairman Charanjit Singh Channi would also reach out to people across different Assembly constituencies through the ‘Jawani Sambhal, Jatta’ cycle rally. Five to six senior party leaders will lead the campaign in different regions and take the party's message to every household.
Pargat Singh said Punjab is currently grappling with drugs, gangsterism, deteriorating law and order and conditions resembling a police state.
Bureaucratic mismanagement was also creating difficulties for ordinary people and the youth. Students who appeared for the PCS examination had also met him and raised concerns regarding irregularities and mismanagement in the examination process.
The Congress will raise all these issues as part of a comprehensive campaign and hold the government accountable. He alleged the Aam Aadmi Party government had worsened the situation in Punjab.
Describing AAP as the BJP’s B-team, he said the party had sought two years to eliminate the drug menace, but the situation remained alarming even today.
He further alleged that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann did not exercise actual control over the government and that Punjab was being run by Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia. The government had damaged the image and reputation of Punjab.
The Congress would reach out to the poor, youth and ordinary citizens, understand their problems and bring their concerns into the mainstream political discourse.