Bajwa lashes out at Badal's Sangat Darshan programme

Congress today alleged that Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's Sangat Darshan programme was an exercise to cover up the SAD-BJP government's poor performance.
Addressing a workers meet here, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Partap Singh Bajwa said, Congress would approach Punjab and Haryana High Court to stop Sangat Darshan programmes, which is a poor reflection on the administrative capability of Badal and his cabinet ministers.
"There was no system in place at district and state levels to redress grievances of common people," he said and asked Badal to rename Sangat Darshan as 'Akali Darshan'.
Congress MLAs had visited Sangat Darshan programmes to expose the myth that Badal was holding these sessions to resolve public issues and to prove that it was a political stunt, Bajwa claimed.

"Badal was wasting public money by handing out development funds in instalments and was merely doing the job of a Block Development Officer or Panchayat Secretary", he alleged.
"Rural development, law and order, health, education, welfare schemes, everything is in shambles and people are reeling under heavy tax structure," Bajwa said.
Unrest prevailed among state government employees and educated unemployed youth, he claimed and added that the state's growth rate was at a mere 5.19 per cent in 2012-13 and economic performance of Punjab had slipped to sixth rank during the six and half years of SAD-BJP rule.