DW BUREAU / Chandigarh

Terming the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab Government's 10-point manifesto for Jalandhar West assembly by-polls as a repackaging of old wine in new bottles, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday said that this manifesto proved that the AAP has accepted its failures in fulfilling its promises.

"The Aam Aadmi Party gave the same guarantees when it was contesting the assembly elections in 2022. Before the assembly elections in 2022, the AAP promised to make Punjab a drug-free state within three months. It also promised Rs 1000 per month to women above the age of 18 years old. Meanwhile, everyone in the state knows what happened to these promises", Bajwa added.

Senior Congress Leader, Bajwa said that ruling the state for the past 2.5 years with a brute majority in the assembly, the AAP couldn't fulfill its promises. Drug overdose deaths have become a new normal ever since the AAP got hold of power in Punjab. And women have been eagerly waiting for their monthly benefits.

"AAP MLA and AAP MP from the same constituency resigned and joined BJP paving the way for this by-poll. Why should the public suffer due to the shenanigans of AAP leaders?", asked Bajwa.

Bajwa said that on one hand Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann claimed that 10,000 cops were transferred to break the nexus between police and drug peddlers which was denied by the DGP.

Meanwhile, AAP's Anandpur Sahib MP and chief spokesperson Malvinder Kang blamed bureaucracy for the party's defeat in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. It is a self-admission by both AAP leaders that even with such a big majority of 92 MLAs they are unable to govern the state, nor the police nor the administration is in their control leading to administrative chaos and lawlessness

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(editor@dailyworld.in)