People will teach Cong a lesson in polls: Harsimrat

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, March 10

Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday said the people of Punjab would teach the ruling Congress a lesson in the coming Lok Sabha elections for betraying their trust in the last couple of years.

Talking to mediapersons during her mass contact programme here, Harsimrat said the Congress made false promises to the people before the 2017 Assembly elections and miserably failed to come up to their expectations. She said the state government had deprived people of the benefits of various social welfare schemes, started by the previous SAD-BJP regime, by falsely projecting a grim economic scenario and stating that the state coffers were empty.

The Union minister said all sections of society — be they farmers, unemployed youth or government employees — all of them were fed up with the Congress government. She said it was high time that the people showed the Congress that if they could vote it to power, they could also vote it out of power.

On the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls, the minister said it was a matter of great satisfaction for her that she had served the people of the Bathinda constituency for 10 years. She said the people had showered her with great affection. She assured them that she would work harder if she got another chance to serve them.

Replying to a media query, she lashed out at Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for allegedly speaking the language of Pakistan.