Jalandhar:
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi leads a protest in Punjab's Jalandhar today highlighting drug abuse and the "collapse" of law and order in the state.
Here are the highlights of his speech
Here are the highlights of his speech
- On one side there is the drugs problem on the other is there is law and order and unemployment
- Modi ji (Prime Minister Narendra Modi), Badal ji (Parkash Singh Badal) talk of ease of doing business. In Punjab the only business that is easy to do is of drugs
- The Punjab government does not let honest police officers work
- The Congress will remove the drug problem in month if it comes to power
- All that needs to be done is give the police a free hand. Free them from the clutches of the Akalis
- Once that is done, the business of drugs can be ended in four weeks
- Today they are banning the film Udta Punjab because they don't want to admit the truth, because it is profitable for them
- Only the Congress can rid Punjab of drugs. When we raise these issues, they make fun of the Congress
- They deny all problems of Punjab, but it is not true
- Till the youth of the state is liberated, the state cannot progress
- They made fun of me for going to meet farmers in Bhatta Parsaul, but farmers know who fought for them and who didn't
- The way we fought against the land ordinance, we will fight against the drugs problem
- We will bring Punjab back on tracks together, will bring back the industrialisation in Punjab, will bring back the pride of the farmers
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