Now Punjab CM reaches out to Christian community
Badal said his government has earmarked Rs 100 crore for providing land for burial grounds as required by the community.
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Badal said his government has earmarked Rs 100 crore for providing land for burial grounds as required by the community, according to a PTI report.
The ruling party Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is worried about the anti-incumbency factor in 2017 Assembly polls. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had done well in Punjab in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, is expected to benefit from the anti-incumbency mood, especially in urban areas. Many believe a large share of the state’s 32 per cent Dalit votes would go for AAP in 2017.
At the event, Badal slammed Congress and AAP for hobnobbing with each other on the Sutlej-Yamuna-Link (SYL) canal issue and asked people to foil their “nefarious designs to ruin the state”. Recently, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal had accused SAD and Congress of “befooling” Punjabis on the SYL issue.
The Christian community is a miniscule 1% of the population in Punjab. AAP has been reaching out to the community,meeting leaders of Punjab Christian United Front in Jalandhar as part of its ongoing ‘Punjab Dialogue’ programme to gather public response before framing party’s manifesto for the 2017 Assembly elections.
SAD hopes to tide over the anti-incumbency factor by winning the confidence of the farmers and Dalits.It has promised free schoolbags to girls, cheap loans to women entrepreneurs, interest-free crop loans to small farmers, 4,000 modern gymnasiums for youth and aRs 100-crore scholarship fund for Dalits.
Source: One India
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