Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today accused Aam Aadmi Party of looting people in the name of "dinner policy" and claimed that the party is nothing more than a B-team of Congress.
"AAP has started looting people in the name of dinner policy by first inviting them for food and then asking them to pay for it," Badal alleged on sidelines of a programme here.
She charged the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started a "reverse trend" in the land of Punjab where free langar (community kitchen) is served to people.
The Food Processing Minister also claimed that AAP was never "more than a B-team" of Congress as its leaders never took any strong action against "corrupt" Congress leaders of Delhi.
"People of Punjab are vigilant enough to not get carried away by such a party," Badal said.
Attacking the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his "dual" policy on SYL issue, Badal alleged that he once again "betrayed" people by changing his stand on the issue as per his political interests.
"AAP spends Rs 528 crore annually on publicity instead of investing this hard earned money to provide homes to homeless. AAP has no base in Punjab and it will soon meet its end as PPP did," she said.
Replying to a question she claimed Congress has been "decimated" from Arunachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand and very soon Punjab Congress too will meet the same fate and factionalism in the party will lead to its ultimate downfall in Punjab.
"By pressurising Congress high command, Amarinder Singh has taken the president-ship of state Congress, which the Congress workers have started rejecting," The Lok Sabha MP from Shiromani Akali Dal claimed.
She claimed that under Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, the SAD-BJP government of Punjab has increased the state's annual income to Rs 30,000 crore from Rs 5,000 crore per annum during Congress rule.
She said that during Congress rule from 2002 to 2007 only Rs 22,000 crore were spent on developmental works which stands at mammoth Rs 1, 28, 637 crore during SAD-BJP government from 2007 to 2015.
Earlier, Badal inaugurated sanitary napkin vending machine at Government Senior Secondary School (girls) at Mall Road today. Twenty such machines will be installed at various educational institutes of district.
She said the girls are hesitant to buy sanitary napkins from shops. These machines will help by providing them sanitary napkins right in their educational institutions without any hesitation.
