Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt.
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt. Amarinder Singh on Saturday dismissed the proposed fourth front being floated by Navjot Singh Sidhu as inconsequential, saying that it seemed to have been propped up by the BJP itself.
“It is like a tonga party of four people, two sitting in the front and two at the back — it will hardly have any impact,” he told reporters, while asserting that four people did not make a political party as it required much more than that. At the same time, he said, they were welcome to form a party as it was their democratic right.
The PCC president promised to end the discrimination against the Christians and other minorities, saying that the Congress had always believed in equality of all religions and equal opportunities for everyone irrespective of the caste, creed or religion they belonged to.
Addressing a Christian congregation, organised by ex-MLA Harpartap Singh Ajnala, he promised that once the Congress government came to power in Punjab, all the welfare schemes announced for the dalits and downtrodden, like the Shagun scheme or free power, will also be extended to the Christian community.
Capt. Amarinder agreed that the Christian community in Punjab had been left behind and special measures were required to ensure that it got its due. He promised to end discrimination and ensure that they got everything to which they were entitled as citizens of the country.
He also accepted a memorandum from the community which was read out from the stage by senior party leader and PCC general secretary Salamat Masih. He said each and every dema-nd would be included in the election manifesto, and aft-er the government’s formation, each and every commitment would be fulfilled.
He added that the Congr-ess government would pass a law in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha that would enable nomination of a member of the community in the Vidhan Sabha on the pattern of Chhattisgarh state.
He said that this would end to a large extent the discrimination being felt and faced by the Christian community in Punjab.
