Punjab Congress President Partap Singh Bajwa today said the hostile reception that the Akali leaders led by the Agriculture Minister Tota Singh received in US reflected anger against the SAD government.
It should be an eye-opener for Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal as it reflected anger against them, he added.
Tota Singh became the soft target as both father and son had no courage to set their foot in the countries with large Punjabi population like in Canada and USA, Bajwa said.
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He referred to the efforts by the Badals to woo the Punjabi diaspora by organising NRI summits with zero end results and the hate against them had been on the increase.
He asserted the NRIs continued to face the same problems despite the tall promises made at these summits.
This is not only about their problems but also because of the issues like drug menace, staggering debt burden, lack of development and false dreams shown to the people that was getting reflected in the demonstrations against Akali leaders abroad, Bajwa added.
"The NRIs too are highly concerned with the open loot by the Badals as evident from their proliferating business while the socio-economic crisis in the state is deepening. There is rank mismanagement and blatant corruption in the administration.
Now Sukhbir Badal want to buy people's support with Rs 10,000 crore loan in the name of development. The fact of the matter is that the Badal government has miserably failed and this is the cause of people's anger against it everywhere", he said in a statement here.
The Narendra Modi government on which it had high hopes had ditched Punjab but Badal was unashamedly lauding it's so called magnanimity to cover embarrassment, he said.
He called upon Sukhbir Singh Badal to visit Canada and US and himself face the situation rather than sending sacrificial goats.
He reminded the Deputy Chief Minister that he had to cancel his proposed Canada tour earlier fearing hostile demonstrations against him about which the diaspora had warned him.
SAD delegations are touring various countries to woo Punjabi diaspora as they feel that the community can play a significant role in 2017 Assembly Polls.
In New York, Tota Singh and his delegation came under attack on Saturday as hundreds of Sikhs allegedly threw stones and hurled a shoe at them.
