May God save the country from 'Modi model': Sonia

 

"Akalis rather than raising voice against them (BJP) are colluding with them and they are partners in this atrocity against Sikhs in Gujarat," said Sonia.

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"In Gujarat every second five-year-old child is malnutritioned and those who get Rs 11 per day are not considered below poverty line in Modi model," she added.

Sonia said that around 45000 acres of land in Gujarat had been given to one businessman at a cheap rate and under this model several people in the villages are still not getting potable water.

 

Accusing BJP of adopting an ideology in which common man will be identified not by his capabilities and skills but by his religion, language and caste, she said, the saffron party's ideology is of "hatred, narrow mindedness and consistent hunger to achieve power" at the centre.

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"Their (BJP) ideology wants to take the country on that path where nation's entire power wrests with one person," she said in an indirect reference to Narendra Modi. 
 

"They will take the country to a situation where the poor, weak and farmers will beg for their rights," she said.

 

However, in contrast the ideology of Congress is development of farmers, poor, weak and every citizen of the country, she said adding that Congress is for peace and communal harmony.

"The SAD-BJP leadership is involved in all wrong trades, including drug smuggling, imposing goonda tax, illegal mining," she said adding that "even policeman is not safe in Punjab what to talk about a normal person."

 

"Youths of Punjab are getting destroyed by drugs but the government is not concerned about it," she said.

 

Hitting out at Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, she said that "he only talks but never delivers."

"He makes promises to attain power and after getting it he forgets the poor and weak," she said.

 

She highlighted achievements of UPA government saying that it took commendable steps for the welfare of dalits and SCs.

 

"The UPA brought an ordinance entailing stringent punishment for those committing atrocities on dalits and SCs," she said. 

She castigated the SAD-BJP for not being serious towards the welfare of dalits and SCs. She said that UPA had promised generation of employment for youths, right to health, free medicines to poor, right to house to landless and poor, social security to old, widow, handicapped in its election manifesto.

 

From Sangrur Lok Sabha seat sitting MP Vijay Inder Singla is locked in a multi-cornered fight against SAD's Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and AAPs Bhagwant Mann.