Sangrur, March 28: SAD general secretary and Youth Akali Dal (YAD) patron Bikram Singh Majithia on Thursday came down heavily on Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann for his “drinking habit”.
Though Mann had recently declared from stage in his mother’s presence that he had shunned liquor, SAD leaders are in no mood to accept it.
“Bhagwant can never shun liquor. The man who goes to Parliament drunk cannot shun liquor,” Majithia said while addressing a YAD rally here.
Majithia also requested the Sangrur residents with folded hands not to “repeat their 2014 mistake”.
“I know the Sangrur voters were fooled by Jhanda (referring to Mann). But this time, I request all with folded hands not to fall into Jhanda’s trap. You sent an alcoholic to Parliament. Beware this time,” said Majithia.
SAD’s likely candidate from Sangrur Parminder Dhindsa said the Punjab government had failed to keep any promises made to the voters.
“Farmers, teachers and all other sections are fed up with the state’s Congress government. The SAD-BJP will win all 13 seats in Punjab in the general election,” Dhindsa said.
YAD core committee member and SAD spokesperson Winnerjit Singh Goldy said that except wasting time on unnecessarily criticising the SAD, Bhagwant had done nothing for Sangrur.
“Bhagwant will lose the seat with a huge margin as he has miserably failed to bring in industry. He claims to have distributed all his funds, but that’s no achievement as that was his duty,” Goldy said.
