Mahila Cong to wave black flags at Modi during his Punjab trip

Modi would address a rally in Moga on Dec 22

Press Trust of India Phagwara (Pb)
Last Updated : Nov 26 2013 | 5:41 PM IST
Mahila Congress activists would wave black flags at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during his proposed visit to Punjab on December 21 to address a rally in Moga.

Punjab Pradesh Mahila Congress president Malti Thapar, who hails from Moga, accused Modi of carrying out surveillance on a woman in Gujarat "negating her right to privacy" and claimed that the people wouldn't support such a person.

Asserting that the so-called "Modi factor was no factor" at all in the coming Lok Sabha elections, Thapar accused Modi of communalising and polarising the country's politics.

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"Wherever Modi goes to address rally, he leaves behind a trail of miserable defeat for his party or its allies. This will prove true for Punjab too as the SAD-BJP combine is bound to get a nasty drubbing in LS polls," she said.

Dubbing the Punjab government a "mafia", Thapar alleged that there was a nexus between ruling Akali Dal leaders, drug mafia and a section of police. To substantiate it, she referred to the alleged involvement of Akali leader Maninder Singh Aulakh in the multi-crore drug racket.

"What action has Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal taken against Akali MLA Amarpal Singh Bony Ajnala whose gunmen and beacon-fitted car Aulakh had used?" she asked.
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First Published: Nov 26 2013 | 5:00 PM IST

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