DW BUREAU / chandigarh Several AAP MLAs were detained by the police on Saturday as they tried to head towards Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's residence to barricade it and hold protest over the unemployment issue, officials said. They said the Chandigarh Police had barricaded both the gates of the MLA hostel here to prevent the legislators from going towards the residence of the Punjab chief minister.When the MLAs tried to head towards Channi's residence, they were detained and taken to a police station. The Aam Aadmi Party legislators who were detained included Harpal Singh Cheema, Saravjit Kaur Manuke and Manjit Singh Bilaspur. They were later released, police said. Cheema said the Congress had promised 'Ghar-Ghar Rozgar' for the youth. But in the last over four-and-a-half years, not even 5,500 youths from 55 lakh families were given jobs, he alleged. The AAP leader alleged that no authentic survey had been conducted about the number of unemployed youth in the state in the last 20-25 years. It is estimated that more than 20 lakh qualified youth are unemployed in the state, he claimed.The AAP, as the opposition party, has the same questions to the government as the youth of Punjab, he said. "What has the Congress government done in the last over four-and-a-half years on the promise of 'Ghar-Ghar Rozgar?" Cheema posed. "Isn't this a betrayal with the youth of Punjab? Will the Congress, especially Chief Minister Channi, apologise to the lakhs of youth who are struggling on the streets for jobs," he asked. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab termed the two-day special session of Punjab Vidhan Sabha by the Congress government as a failure and asked Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi; what special was done for the benefit of Punjab and its people in the special session of Assembly. Senior leader of the AAP and Leader of Opposition, Harpal Singh Cheema said that the Channi government had only staged a drama in the name of a special session of the Legislative Assembly and had wasted crores of rupees of Punjab on this drama. Harpal Singh Cheema said, "The Congress government has certainly held its last assembly session, but the decisions and problems that have ruined Punjab are still there. In over four-and-a-half-years of the Congress rule, the Congress has only politicized issues of desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, power purchase agreements, unemployment along with drug, cable, sand and transport mafia; but no concrete decision has been taken in the interest of Punjab and Punjabis." He said from former Congress Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to Congress state president Navjot Singh Sidhu and current Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and other leaders were talking about cancellation of power deals; but now the Charanjit Singh Channi-led government and the Congress led by Navjot Singh Sidhu have only done the job of pretence by talking of revising power tariffs and not canceling power deals. Cheema alleged that the Congress government had flouted the Constitution and democracy in the name of special sessions as the Assembly sessions used to last for months. But earlier the SAD-BJP government had reduced these sessions from months to days and now the Congress government had reduced the sessions from days to a few hours. He questioned what could be discussed on the issues of Punjab in a few hours' session. In fact first Capt Amarinder Singh and now Charanjit Singh Channi had run away from facing public issues. Not only this, during the session, the opposition MLAs were encouraged to change their party by flouting the Act. Also, which Punjabi mother tongue was served by introducing the draft of bills regarding Punjabi language in English language? The BSF issue was also summed up by condemning it. Therefore, this special session did not serve the interests of the people of Punjab, said Cheema.The LoP further said that the Assembly session should have been convened for at least 15 days to discuss the problems of Punjab with an open mind and the session should have been telecast live on channels. But the Channi government has banned the media cameras. Cheema questioned how the major issues of Punjab could be resolved in the session with a 2-4 minute debate in commotion. (editor@dailyworld.in)