Title - Amarinder: Govt fooling people on Metro project

Batala : Angry at not being able to hold a rally at Majitha yesterday, Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Capt Amarinder Singh today asked Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal and his brother-in-law Bikram Singh Majithia to maintain decorum in public.Addressing a workers’ meeting organised by Fatehgarh Churian MLA Tripit Rajinder Singh Bajwa here, a livid Amarinder accused Majithia of getting 580 “false” cases registered against Congress workers in his assembly segment. He warned that if the cases were not withdrawn, he and his supporters would lay a siege to the main police station at Majithia.The PPCC chief said the police, which worked directly under the supervision of Sukhbir Badal, had failed to maintain law and order. Dera Baba Nanak MLA Sukhjinder Randhawa said no person was safe on the streets of Gurdaspur because of a spurt in the incidents of chain-snatching. Amarinder said Sukhbir was befooling the public by saying that the SAD-BJP Government would complete the Ludhiana Metro project in the next four years.

“The project is worth Rs 30,000 crore and according to experts, it will be completed in 25 years. How can the Deputy Chief Minister claim that the project would be completed within four years? Even the New Delhi Metro project took 25 years to take a concrete shape,” Amarinder said.

The PCC chief was accompanied by Congress Legislature Party Leader Sunil Jakhar, Youth Congress chief Vikram Chowdhury, Ashwani Sekri, Aruna Chowdhury, Raman Bahl, Fatehjung Singh Bajwa, Dr SS Nijjar and Ravinder Sharma, former Chairman of Punjab Agro Industries.

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Chandigarh: Punjab Revenue Minister and SAD youth wing president Bikram Singh Majithia today challenged Amarinder Singh to prove his allegations that 500 “false” cases had been registered in the Majitha constituency. In a statement here, Majithia said he was ready to resign from the Cabinet if Amarinder proved the charge. He said prior to the assembly elections, the PCC president had claimed that 50,000 false cases had been registered against Congress workers.

Majithia denied that he had prevailed upon marriage palace owners not to let out their premises for the Congress dharna at Majitha yesterday. He said the PCC president was feeling frustrated because voters of Majitha had shunned the Congress dharna.

He said the protest by Congress activist Shailender Shally had attracted more numbers that the dharna organised by the PCC chief.

It was ironic that the Congress had held the dharna at one of the smallest villages in the constituency - Gopalpura. In a separate statement, Rampal Sharma, president of the Brahmin Sabha of Gopalpura, which manages the affairs of the village temple where the Congress dharna was held, criticised the party for “trying to show temple devotees as its supporters.”