Punjab Election 2022: Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) CM candidate Bhagwant Mann has said that Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is contesting from two seats because he is scared. He says that he will lose from both Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur. Bhagwant Mann made this claim in an exclusive interview to CNN-News18 while campaigning in his constituency Dhuri.
He said that I have a ‘Rangla Punjab’, a model full of happiness and glory, whose glimpses will be visible within three-four months of my becoming the Chief Minister. Let us inform that Mann has decided to contest the Punjab Assembly elections from Dhuri after being declared the CM face of his Aam Aadmi Party.
Targeting the Congress, he said that the Congress was earlier doubting our poll for the CM face. Now, he himself is saying that he will poll for his CM face as well. Congress is slowly learning politics from us, which is a good thing. Congress should make anyone its CM face, be it Charanjit Channi or Navjot Singh Sidhu. His government will not come to power, so we have no problem.
He also took a dig at Congress leader Sunil Jakhar’s statement in which he had said that most of the MLAs were in favor of giving him the chief minister’s post, but Channi was made the chief minister. After Mann decided to contest from Dhuri falling in Sangrur parliamentary constituency, Channi also announced that he would contest from Bhadaur seat of Sangrur apart from Chamkaur Sahib. This is seen as Channi’s attempt to challenge Mann’s hold on Sangrur.
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To this, Mann said that Channi is probably afraid that he will lose from Chamkaur Sahib, so he is fighting from two seats. In fact, he is losing from both Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur seats. He challenged Channi to cite the work done by him in the 111 days of becoming the Chief Minister. He told them to let him know if any of his decisions have been implemented. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) found Rs 11 crore cash and illegal assets worth Rs 56 crore from Channi’s relatives. All this in just 111 days. No one knows how much Congress has earned in 4.5 years.
Mann is confident that AAP will win the Punjab elections. He said that the mood in Dhuri and the whole of Punjab is similar. Ask the people here, especially those women who have come in such large numbers from villages to interior areas. This is a sign that a big change is about to happen in Punjab in these elections. Ask people and you will know whose government is coming to power. He said that he has a ‘Rangla Punjab’ model for Punjab which will be full of joy, dance and smile.
He said that I do not want to make it California, London or Paris, but want to bring back the old Punjab of Bhangra, Gidda, Wrestling and Anand. We will bring back industry in Punjab. Within three-four months of our government, you will start seeing glimpses of Rangla Punjab. Rejecting Congress’s charge that he is an alcoholic and not serious, he said let the Congress first try to win a seat in Delhi.
Mann said he has no advice for Navjot Singh Sidhu if Congress doesn’t make him the CM face, as his government is not coming to power anyway. Mann said that his top priority would be to stop the migration of youth of Punjab to foreign countries and stop drug consumption. He said the only solution is creating jobs. Young people go abroad because they cannot get jobs here.
Mann said that those who are unable to go abroad become victims of drugs. Have you ever heard of someone who works a job and gets addicted to drugs? We want to make our youth job-providers. Youth should get jobs according to their degree. We have to stop brain drain.
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