Cong to fight unitedly to oust SAD-BJP govt: Bhattal

Former Punjab Chief Minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal today said the state Congress will unitedly fight the 2017 assembly polls to oust the SAD-BJP government.
Bhattal told reporters here that the party's priority was to rid Punjab of SAD-BJP's "misrule".
She hoped that the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) organizational set up will be in order by end of January next year.
The Congress leader said that the Poll Manifesto Committee would also be set up and the party leadership will decide its poll plank.
To a query on the party candidate for the CM's post, Bhattal said that there were many leaders capable for the post but it was for party chief Sonia Gandhi to decide it.

She called Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's 'Sangat Darshan programme' a "note and vote" darshan programme.

"The public was so disillusioned with Akalis that even Sikhs were not allowing them to speak during Jor melas," she said while referring to the Fatehgarh Sahib event wherein Sikh Sangat did not allow SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar to speak.
"Akalis are misusing SGPC for furthering its ends but Sikh Sangat has now risen against this," she said.
Bhattal also hit out at the dismal financial condition of the state as well as politicalisation of religion as well as administration by the Akalis.