Manmohan releases Punjab Cong manifesto, party promises all-round growth

Amarinder Singh blamed Akali-BJP govt for messing up finances and assured to waive off farmer's debt

The Congress on Monday fielded well-known economist and former prime minister Manmohan Singh to spell out the party's agenda in poll-bound Punjab.

Manmohan Singh released the Congress poll manifesto detailing how the party plans to pull the agrarian state out of the financial abyss that the ruling Akali-BJP combine has allegedly pushed it into.

Punjab's 117 member assembly will have polls on February 4; results will be out on March 11.

The Congress is trying hard to wrest power from the Akali-BJP combine which has been ruling the state for the past decade.

Alleging that policies of the ruling Badal family have ruined Punjab's