Chandigarh, May 26
Rubbishing the claims of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann that the Congress will not win more than nine seats in the ensuing 2027 assembly elections, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today said that the Chief Minister was either living in a fools’ paradise or deliberately misleading people of Punjab. “Congress will further improve its 2017 performance in 2027 as people of Punjab have now realized that they committed a big mistake in 2022”, he said.
In a strong counter attack on Mann’s claims, Warring asserted, “Take it under my oath that the AAP will not touch the double figures this time as people of Punjab have had enough of their theatrics”. He said the AAP leaders were used to such drama of “giving it in writing” about the number of seats they will win. He reminded the Chief Minister that before the 2024 General Elections, he had made similar claims of winning all the 13 parliamentary constituencies in Punjab and it could just win three. Besides, he added, from winning 92 assembly segments in 2022, the party had slid down to 32 in the 2024 parliamentary elections. “And the slide has been continuing since then and nobody knows where it will stop”, he added.
The PPCC president said that there was groundswell of anger and resentment against the AAP government particularly due to the rise in the gangster culture and spread of drugs. He said, corruption had crossed all the limits and the common man was feeling cheated, looted and robbed. “If Mann Sahab still believes that the AAP will be winning the elections, one can only say that he is actually living in a fools’ paradise”, he remarked.
Warring noted that people of Punjab were drawing comparisons between the AAP and the previous Congress governments. “We may not have finished the drugs completely, but the drug pedaling was not as rampant as it is under the AAP regime and the gangsters did not have such audacity as they are showing today as they have no fear of law”, he said, while adding, the AAP has beaten even the Akalis in terms of drug peddling and crime in the state.
The PPCC president reiterated and reaffirmed that Congress was headed for a landslide victory in Punjab in 2027. “Let me guarantee under oath that the Congress will improve its 2017 performance this year, while the AAP will be desperately fighting for its survival”, he asserted, adding, it is a matter of few months more to prove who is going to be right and who is going to be wrong.
