Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the previous Captain Amarinder Singh government in Punjab was "being run by the BJP from the Centre", speaking at a campaign in Punjab, reported NDTV. "We knew something was going wrong. Hence we changed the leadership," Vadra said, reported the publication.
After he was ousted as chief minister in September last year following a bitter power tussle with Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Army veteran quit the Sonia Gandhi-led party and launched his own party: Punjab Lok Congress.
Singh's PLC is fighting the Punjab assembly polls in alliance with the BJP and the Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa-led Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt). Addressing a public meeting on Wednesday, Singh reminded voters that during his tenure of four-and-a-half years as the chief minister, he cleared development projects worth Rs 1,800 crore for Patiala Urban constituency.
Singh is pitted against Congress' Vishnu Sharma, Shiromani Akali Dal's Harpal Juneja and Aam Aadmi Party's Ajit Pal Singh Kohli.
Among other issues, the people of Patiala Urban constituency have long been demanding that dairies be shifted out of the city as their waste has choked drains. Punjab goes to the polls on February 20. The counting of votes will be taken up on March 10.
