Punjab Congress President Pratap Singh Bajwa today dared Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to go in for mid-term poll and seek a fresh mandate in the wake of struggles launched by every sections of society, especially the agrarian community, in the state.
"If he (Parkash Singh Badal) was so confident of the government's performance, go for mid-term polls. People from every sections of the society were launching protests against them," Bajwa said.
He also blamed Badal for the damage to the cotton crop and asked him to stop finding scapegoats in view of a very powerful officer in his own office figuring in the "Rs 33 crore pesticide scam" that had ruined the cotton farmers.
Bajwa demanded the resignation of the state Agriculture Minister Tota Singh for his negligence in "multi crore pesticide scam".
He said Punjab was earlier notorious for drug menace and sand mafia and now the latest addition was pesticide mafia under patronage of the Chief Minister's Office.
Bajwa announced his three-day tour of the cotton belt beginning on October 4 to meet the "beleaguered" farmers.
A state level function was organized in Punjab Congress Bhawan today to commemorate Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shahstri.
The Punjab Congress today took a pledge to unitedly confront the "political terror" unleashed by the Akali Dal-BJP alliance government in the state and dislodge it in the February 2017 Assembly elections under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
The resolution to this effect was adopted by the PPCC at a function organised in the Congress Bhawan to pay tributes to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Bajwa, who presided over the meeting, exhorted the partymen to leave no stone unturned to script change as the people were "fed up" with this totally "corrupt regime" which had failed on every front as evident from the struggles launched by various sections of Punjabi society.
It was further resolved to send the copy of this resolution to the Congress President and Vice-president for their information.
