Mudslinging disenchants rural voters

Neeraj Bagga

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 19

Rural voters have expressed their disenchantment over the political tussle and mudslinging between the Congress and the SAD as they feel that the issues concerning them are being ignored. 

Mangal Singh of Ibban Khurd village is disillusioned with successive governments. “These politicians are in a habit of weaving plots to divide people. They make an issue out of nowhere. The demands of people remain unattended,” he said. 

According to him, the politicians have been accusing their opponents in the case of desecration of Guru Granth Sahib. Instead, they must probe, unearth and fix the responsibility who ordered the police to open fire at a congregation of Sikhs at Behbal Kalan. The perpetrators of the Bargari sacrilege incident must be identified and put behind the bars, he added.

Jagbir Singh, another voter, said, the politicians, as usual, made sacrilege a political issue to deflect the attention of voters. He added that his village, Ibban Khurd, had been denied sewage outlet. Domestic waste gets accumulated in a pond close to the village which contaminates the underground water and inflicts people with disease. Financially sound people have installed ROs

Standing in a queue for polling, Kanchan of Mule Chakk village sounded pessimistic. She said her family was neither issued ration card nor funds for constructing a toilet. “Though I belong to the reserved category, I haven’t got an LPG connection,” she added.