Chandigarh, 13 November:- Haryana Chief Minister Shri Nayab Singh Saini, targeting the Aam Aadmi Party, said that the governments which had been in power in Punjab made tall promises but did nothing except push the state into a quagmire of corruption. Bhagwant Mann had promised to provide employment to 2.5 million young people in Punjab during the Assembly elections. However, a few days ago, he saw a video of Bhagwant Mann on social media in which he was saying that his government had provided 60,000 jobs. The Punjab Government should clarify what happened to the promise of 2.5 million jobs and issue a white paper informing the youth of Punjab how many young people have actually been provided employment so far.
The Chief Minister was addressing a public rally organised in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, on Friday. He said that the pace of development in Punjab had come to a halt during Congress rule, and the Aam Aadmi Party government had also disappointed the people. The people of Punjab were now fed up with the false claims and jokes of these parties and wanted a change in the state.
He said that Congress ruled Punjab for more than five years but took no effective steps to provide employment to the state's youth or protect them from drugs. After that, the Aam Aadmi Party came to power by describing itself as staunchly honest and showing the people of Punjab dreams of change. However, the condition of the state today was before everyone. He said that the people of Punjab had given the Aam Aadmi Party a massive mandate with high expectations, but instead of living up to those expectations, the government had pushed Punjab further behind in terms of development.
Citing the recruitment of Excise Inspectors in Punjab, the Chief Minister said that the results of recruitment examinations in Haryana and Punjab had been declared around three months ago. After the results were announced in Haryana, he had stated from the stage during a rally organised in the Punhana Assembly constituency that 29 young people from the area had been selected. In front of the thousands of people present there, he had asked them to speak up if anyone could say that they had secured a recommendation from an MLA, minister or Chief Minister, or had paid even five paise to get a job. This was the transparent recruitment system of the Haryana Government, where children from poor families were being selected for government positions on the basis of their hard work and merit.
In contrast, serious questions had emerged over the results of the Excise Inspector recruitment in Punjab. It was even a matter requiring scrutiny that selections had reportedly been made from two different examination centres despite the examination being held simultaneously at both centres. He said that those who claimed to be staunchly honest must answer these questions.
The Chief Minister said that Aam Aadmi Party leaders told jokes among the public, but jokes might keep cinema halls running; they could not run a government. Running a government required a clear policy, strong determination and accountability to the people. The people of Punjab had now understood that they needed not jokes but a government committed to development and good governance.
The People of Punjab Must Now Demand Accountability
The Chief Minister said that only two months remained before the Punjab Assembly elections. When leaders of the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party came among the people seeking votes, they should certainly be asked to account for their earlier promises. They should be questioned about what happened to their promises of providing employment to the youth, eliminating drugs, purchasing the entire produce of farmers at MSP and providing financial assistance to women.
He said that the brotherhood between Punjab and Haryana was very old. The cultures, traditions and sentiments of the two states were closely connected. People in Haryana felt saddened by the present situation in Punjab because the state had once been counted among the leading states of the country. The people of Punjab had made a significant contribution to the country's progress through their hard work, but wrong political decisions had affected the state's development journey.
The Chief Minister said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the BJP government in Haryana had implemented the historic decision to procure all crops of farmers at MSP. At the same time, young people were being provided government jobs without recommendation or bribery. He said that the same system of good governance and transparency needed to be established in Punjab as well.
The Chief Minister said that instead of making proper use of the hard-earned money of the people of Punjab, the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party governments had disappointed them. The time had now come for the people of Punjab to respond to these parties through the power of their votes and resolve to form a Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
On this occasion, Cabinet Minister Shri Ranbir Gangwa, former Union Minister and former MP Shri Vijay Sampla, former MP Shri Avinash Rai Khanna and several other prominent people were present.
