Congress ridicules AAP comparison of 7 months with 70 years

CHANDIGARH, October 16: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today took a dig at the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab for comparing its seven month performance with the last seventy years. “Exaggeration is a small word for such a hugely bogus claim”, he remarked.

“These claims are outrageously ridiculous and on top of it, the government has yet again spent crores of rupees to make such hoax claims as this money could have been spent on purchasing medicines for rural hospitals”, he said.

Referring to the claims made in the advertisements, the PCC president challenged the government to prove even one of these claims to be true. The very first claim of providing MSP for ‘moong’ is completely false as the government procured only 11 percent of the crop produced while 89 percent was sold, by farmers in distress, to private buyers at a much lower price than the MSP.

Similarly the claim about Rs 1500 per acre subsidy for direct seeding of rice is again far from truth as not even ten percent farmers have been provided such subsidy.

On the ‘Mohalla Clinics’, Warring said, these were extension counters of the Aam Aadmi Party with hardly any medical facilities. Instead of strengthening the existing strong network of rural dispensaries, the government has set up showpieces where hardly any medical services are provided.

These are just data collection centres for the AAP, he remarked. He said, there have been no medicines available in government hospitals for the last four months.

The PCC president also cited the Pathankot hospital incident where a pregnant lady was made to deliver in the hospital corridor.

ON free power, the PCC president said, up to 400 units of free power were already provided during the previous Congress government. “Rather you have snatched away the subsidy of a lot of people by manipulating the scheme”, he told the government while pointing out, “if people consume more than 600 units they have to pay the entire bill”.

He said, even the tube-well load enhancement fees was reduced by the Congress government two years ago and AAP was claiming credit for it.