Shiromani Akali Dal today strongly condemned the statement of the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asking the UP youth to desist from visiting Punjab and Maharashtra for earning their livelihood and said that the statement was a nefarious attempt to disrespect the hardworking labour class of the UP and also aims at creating a regional divide in the country for petty political gains of the Congress party.
It is clear that the Indian National Congress which always pretended to be a nationalist party has stooped down to create regional fissures in the country. In a statement issued from party headoffice here today party Secretary and Spokesman Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema said that this act of the scion of the Gandhi family has proved that those living the political royal houses are unaware of the problems of the poor, needy and hardworking labour class. After the Congress has dismally failed to do anything to help the labour and working class in the UP, now it was misleading them and preventing them from exploring job avenues in other states.
He said that instead of taunting the hardworking youth of the UP state, Mr. Gandhi should come out with thetruth as why the Congress party failed to deliver when it remained in power for so long at the centre ? It should also explain that what it had done for the welfare of the people and for containing the widespread unemployment in the whole country ? The SAD leader said that the hidden agenda of the Congress party is to create a regional division in the country by inflaming the regional emotions of the people an act which Mr. Gandhi tried in his Phulpur rally yesterday.
He said that instead of addressing burning problems like that of record-breaking corruption and unprecedented inflation in the regime of the Congress led UPA government which has played havoc with the lives of the common man, the party has now formulated a plan to divide the people, a rule which the founder of the Congress party had always followed.
Strongly denouncing the act of the Union Cabinet Minister Mr. Jatin Prasad for kicking a commoner in front of Mr. Rahul Gandhi, Dr. Cheema said that Congerss party wants the common man to fall in line with its policies by hook or crook and the hooliganism of the Congress leader has once again established that the High Command of the Congress party has approved these very acts as the same policy was being followed by Punjab Congress Chief Capt. Amarinder Singh who is openly asking his partymen to ‘pick up the lathis’ for enforcing their agenda on the people of Punjab.
The SAD leader advised the Congress leadership that instead of the trying to divide the society and ‘crush’ the common man, it should realize its constitutional responsibility of safeguarding the interest of the people and start working for the welfare of the people “even if it is too late now”.