Punjab CM literally clings on while Kejriwal waves at the crowd
21 Jun 2022 16:36:42
Sangrur, Jun 21: Every single pre-poll promise made to the people of Punjab will be fulfilled and work on some has already started, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday.
Kejriwal, along with Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, held a roadshow in support of Gurmail Singh, who is AAP’s candidate for the June 23 Sangrur Lok Sabha bypoll.
“All promises we made to the people, every single promise will be fulfilled,” Kejriwal said, adding that 300 units of free electricity — a promise made by the party ahead of the assembly elections earlier this year — will be given to every house per month from July 1. “Work on the rest of the promises is underway and all guarantees will be fulfilled soon,” he said. Netizens have not failed to point out that the CM of Punjab was hanging by the door and the CM of Delhi was waving through the roof. “An AAP minister was involved in corruption and chief minister Bhagwant Mann immediately sacked him from the Cabinet and also sent him to jail,” Kejriwal said. “We are also investigating the corruption cases of ministers in the previous governments. Those who are found guilty will be given exemplary punishment for deceiving Punjab and its people.” The bypoll was necessitated after Mann, who became the chief minister of Punjab following the AAP’s landslide victory in the February-March assembly elections, resigned as Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur. Addressing the gathering at Vijay Chowk, Mann said the people of Sangrur are famous for starting a new revolution and as they elected him as an MP in 2014 and 2019, they will now send Gurmail Singh, who is the AAP’s Sangrur district in charge, to Parliament so that “people’s voice is strongly raised there.”
The Congress has fielded former Dhuri legislator Dalvir Singh Goldy for the June 23 bypoll, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has picked former Barnala MLA Kewal Dhillon, who joined the party on June 4. Kamaldeep Kaur, sister of Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in former chief minister Beant Singh’s assassination case, will contest the by-poll on the Shiromani Akali Dal ticket.