Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today jibed the Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Nabin for selling the bogus dreams of recreating the Maharaja Ranjit Singh era in Punjab, which he said, is impossible, historically as well as geographically. Punjab, Warring said, is faced with several issues like the farm crisis, unemployment, corruption, drug menace and the rising gangster culture.
“We need solutions to those pressing problems and not a rewind of history, which in any case is not possible”, he remarked. He said, Nabin is not the first one to sell these bogus dreams and people of Punjab are really not interested or impressed with such rhetoric as they are facing the survival challenges.
“Instead of selling the Ranjit Singh era dreams, let us talk about the present crisis Punjab is facing”, Warring told the BJP president, while seeking his commitment that the BJP will cooperate with Punjab irrespective of the party that forms the government in the state. “If the formation of a BJP government in Punjab is a precondition for the BJP ruled centre to address the state’s problems, then we may well have to wait for some time”, Warring noted, while pointing out, every Punjabi knows that the BJP cannot form the government in Punjab at any cost in near future.
Referring to the presence of several former Congress leaders, who are now with the BJP, during Nabin’s visit, the PCC president said, “the fact that your current and the past state presidents are from the Congress reflects upon the plight of your organization that you have to depend on outsiders and you still have the audacity to claim that you will form the government in Punjab”.