Without doubt, the season of elections, whether parliamentary or legislative, arrests the attention of the entire nation into the specific region where it is being held. With the simultaneous elections of five principal states in India, viz. Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh & Goa, the nation wishes to know where the road to democracy will head to with the decision of the masses in these states.
Whether for good or for bad, it is another matter altogether, but there is one state whose election is extremely crucial in deciding the apparent future of north western India, especially after the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir is under siege for apparently the same reasons, and that state is, the pride of India, and the ‘Land of Five Rivers’, Punjab.
Like the previous three seasons, Punjab was initially headed for another high voltage contest between the two warring clans of Punjab : the Badals and the Singhs, led by Shiromani Akali Dal chief Parkash Singh Badal & successor of ex Maharaja of Patiala [i.e. Maharaja Yadavindra Singh], Captain [Retd.] Amarinder Singh, until a new contender emerged, the Aam Aadmi Party. Led by the ever opportunistic ‘CM of India’ Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, who aims to expand his territories from Delhi onwards, along with his coterie of loyal comrades and social media representatives, who are riding high on the mammoth success of the party in New Delhi elections and aim to make it big in Goa, Punjab & Gujarat. That’s where their real face slowly, but steadily emerges.
Apparently, Aam Aadmi Party is focusing on the malaise of drug abuse in the state of Punjab, which is supposedly, in their eyes, overlooked by both Congress and AAP respectively.
Invoking the power of the masses, following are some of the key promises made by AAP, provided they win in Punjab elections:-
- Removal of the drug empire in Punjab within one month
- Meals modeled on Amma Canteen basis, to cost Rs. 5 only when served
- 25 lakh jobs
- Free Wifi to all districts of Punjab
- Farmers of Punjab will be debt free by December 2018
- Those involved in religious desecrations will be given exemplary Punishment
Truth be told, Punjab has a choice for itself, either save itself from the malaise of drugs and cross border terrorism, or surrender themselves to both under the rule of AAP. For those still unaware, Arvind Kejriwal is that person, who badly wants to be a mix of both Jayalalithaa and Shivraj Singh Chauhan, but ends up being a horrible hybrid version of Jyoti Basu, Mamata Banerjee and Manmohan Singh.
Following are some of the so called promises yet to be fulfilled by Aam Aadmi Party [though CM Kejriwal wastes no time in blaming Modi for the failure]:-
- Installation of more than 15 lakh CCTV cameras throughout the city [NOT ONE INSTALLED TILL DATE, and I’m NOT MAKING THIS UP. I’m a regular visitor of Delhi myself, hailing from Kanpur. The claims are straight from AAP manifesto]
- End to VIP culture [INSTEAD, salaries were increased for almost every AAP MLA by 200%. Not one top brass personnel from AAP is ready for any talks, unless paid heftily. If you ask questions, they start demonizing you instead]
- A huge cut in Electricity Bills [Instead, Delhi had to face power blackouts for almost the entire summer season of 2016, with electricity output in fact reduced by 50%]
- Free Wifi to the whole of Delhi [Instead, Google and Central Government are opening most of the accessible hotspots. Fun fact, Maharashtra has opened more hotspots in Mumbai alone in barely two months{approximately 5120 by January 2017} than Kejriwal could ever do in two years of his new tenure]
- Yamuna De Pollution Drive to be launched [Like Namami Gange, not a single indication of things being changed at a ground level have surfaced till date]
- Setting up 1000 Mohalla Clinics by March 2017 [Till date, not even 200 have been completed.]
- Ensuring Safety to Women [Instead, almost 10 women volunteers from AAP have either committed suicide or murdered under questionable circumstances. Fun fact, an AAP student volunteer Jasleen Bagga filed a malicious FIR against a common commuter, after uploading a fake molestation scare on Facebook, and is still walking free, unquestioned.]
This is not all. I’m surprised as to how this person has the audacity to ask for votes in Punjab, even when his own party members comprise everything communists dreams to be: scamster, bootlegger, drunkard, embezzler, as the list goes ad infinitum and ad nauseam.
The great AAP party chief Arvind Kejriwal talks of removing the drug problem from Punjab in a month of being elected, when it can’t even remove the drunkard MP and ex comedian Bhagwant Mann, notorious for exposing the sensitive details of Parliament security.
But then I forget, Mann belongs to the same party whose supremo finds it more interesting to question the credentials of the armed forces of our country for conducting a surgical strike against the terrorists in Pakistan Oppressed Kashmir and ready to align with even the the dreaded enemies of our nation, including factions like Khalistan, just for the sake of a few votes, rather than actually doing something for Delhi, what he claims to do. But no, flouting rules for swag is as cool for Kejriwal as bombing innocents is to Hafiz Saeed.
To top it all, AAP finds no shame in including a clause in its manifesto, of prosecuting the religious desecrators severely, when its own party members [yet to be named due to the case being sub judice], were accused of desecrating the holy book of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib at Malerkotla. To sum it up, inviting SAD+BJP or Congress may or may not take Punjab further on the road to progress, but inviting AAP to the Punjab government will only spread doom for Punjab. They’ve already suffered twice, once during Partition, and then under Khalistan + Congress. Let’s not make them suffer again.