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  • AAP postpones tour of Punjab, will hold prayer meet for state progress

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: The ‘Mission Punjab’ tour of the state to be headed by AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, which was scheduled to start from Moga, has been postponed for November 22. This is because AAP workers in Punjab are busy participating in the celebrations with the farmers following the rollback on the farm laws.

    The Aam Aadmi Party has described the jollity of the ‘annadatas’ as the happiness of the country and saluted the 700 slain farmers, who sacrificed their lives and fought for over a year. A party spokesman said that history will remember the farmers’ struggle on every front. 

    “This is the victory of the farmer’s courage, passion and hope, the victory of every family who, regardless of day and night, regardless of sun or rain, fighting with storms and harsh weather by risking their lives, have secured the future of Punjab,” said the AAP spokesperson.

    Meanwhile, Kejriwal along with the party’s Punjab state president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann congratulated the farmers from Punjab and the rest of the country on the repeal of three laws. The AAP will organise ‘Sukhmani Sahib paath’ at all the district headquarters across the state on November 20.

    In-charges and volunteers in the district-level, will organise a prayer meet for the progress and prosperity of Punjab with recitation of ‘Sukhmani Sahib Paath’. Bhagwant Mann termed the announcement by PM Modi to repeal the three agricultural laws as a victory of the farmers and congratulated the farmers of the country. 

    Mann said that the BJP leaders who called the farmers of the country, separatists, Naxalites and traitors, should apologise and that the Union government should also compensate the families of the slain farmers. Mann also added that the credit for the Centre’s decision on the rollback goes solely to the farmers.

    He observed that no political party is entitled to take credit. “In Punjab, the Congress, Akali Dal and BJP have become objects for people’s ire. Earlier, Amarinder Singh used to share government with the BJP and now he will share seats. Amarinder’s alliance with the BJP has now come to light,” said Mann.

  • Kejriwal’s ‘Mission Punjab’ to kick-start from November 20  

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH:  AAP National Convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will start the ‘Mission Punjab’ from November 20, ahead of the forthcoming assembly elections.

    AAP Punjab president and Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann said that in view of the Punjab Assembly elections, the AAP has started its preparations vigorously and as a part of this, Kejriwal will be on a one-day tour to Moga on November 20.

    Mann said that in Punjab, the AAP is doing a tremendous campaign from city to the village ahead of the Punjab elections and is preparing a comprehensive roadmap withholding various meetings which will later be added to the party’s election manifesto.

    He further said that the party’s National Convener Arvind Kejriwal will be mostly on the Punjab tour in the next one month and will visit several places. As part of the ‘Mission Punjab’ programme, Kejriwal will also visit several villages, where he will listen to the problems of the villagers, he added.

    Senior AAP leader and Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema said the Channi government of the Congress was bent on ruining the agriculture of the state as the government of the specials, instead of common man, stating that both the policies and intentions of the Punjab government were the enemy of Punjab. 

    He said that the Congress government, which had claimed in writing on January 19, 2017 to waive the entire loan of about  Rs 90,000 crore of the farmers-laborers; the debt has now increased to about Rs 1.5 lakh crore.

    This includes loans raised from government, cooperative and private banks as well as from the unorganized sector. 

    He said: “When the Punjab government announces any public welfare work, the AAP welcomes it, but Congress Punjab president Navjot Singh Sidhu is calling the government’s announcements a hoax.”