Via PTI
CHAMKAUR SAHIB (PUNJAB): Looking for re-election from Chamkaur Sahib seat for the fourth time, Charanjit Singh Channi is banking at the building paintings he undertook in his constituency as an MLA and all over his 111-day tenure as Punjab leader minister.
Channi just lately made an impassioned speech telling the folks of his long-time constituency that it will no longer be a victory if he wins via lower than 50,000 votes.
With the ballot campaigning in Punjab getting into its final segment, Channi, whom the Congress just lately declared as its leader ministerial candidate, has been criss-crossing the state keeping ballot conferences in Malwa, Majha and Doaba areas.
All the way through his visits, he talks in regards to the pro-people tasks his executive took all over its brief tenure of 111 days. The Congress has additionally fielded Channi, who changed Amarinder Singh final 12 months and is the primary leader minister of Punjab from the Scheduled Caste neighborhood, from Bhadaur (SC) in Barnala district.
A couple of days in the past, Channi requested humans right here to make sure his victory for the fourth consecutive time as he indexed a number of building tasks performed in his house constituency.
“If we win (from Chamkaur Sahib) via lower than 50,000 votes, then it is going to no longer be a victory. I’m your son and your brother. I’ve been with you for 15 years and not went away for even an afternoon. I’m not anything with out you,” Channi had stated.
Channi, who has BA, LLB, MBA, MA levels and is now doing a PhD, has cultivated the picture of a commoner and has remained obtainable to humans. Whilst campaigning in Ludhiana, Channi stopped at a dhaba to have dinner and mingled with some truck drivers.
Previous, at a public accumulating in Ludhiana, he were given down from the level to freely mingle with the target audience. Whilst campaigning in Bhadaur, the executive minister took day without work to play cricket with locals and playing cards with the aged.
On the other hand, combatants have centered Channi’s “not unusual guy” symbol over the new arrest of his nephew via the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case connected to alleged unlawful sand mining in Punjab.
But even so speaking in regards to the paintings finished via his executive, the executive minister has additionally been attacking the rival events, specifically the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration (AAP), pronouncing that individuals might not be misled via their “false claims”.
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At the building paintings performed right here, citizens stated a theme park was once finished in November final 12 months, building of a talent institute has begun and basis stones of 2 bridges had been laid via Channi.
In the principle marketplace out of doors Katalgarh Sahib gurdwara right here, shopkeepers are proud of the advance paintings. Harjit, who owns a items and toys store, says the world has noticed building beneath Channi.
At the risk that Channi must surrender some of the two seats he’s contesting from if he wins from each, Harjit stated, “Chamkaur Sahib is CM sahab’s lifestyles, he can’t surrender this seat”. Amrit Good friend, who runs a utensil store, stated Channi’s first tenure was once just for 111 days.
When he will get a complete tenure of 5 years, whole Punjab will see building. AAP candidate Charanjit Singh, alternatively, countered Channi’s building claims. “Crores had been seized from his nephew. Can he merely wash off his arms?” Singh requested.
At the building entrance, he stated, “Had there been any building, it will had been visual. All the stretch of the principle street in Morinda (a part of Chamkaur Sahib phase) has been dug up and so they may no longer assemble one street.”
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“The CM may no longer assemble one street in entrance of his area, how will he increase all of the state,” stated Singh, who misplaced to Channi from right here within the 2017 polls via a margin of 12,308 votes.
Significantly, Channi additionally owns a area in Morinda. “It sort of feels they nonetheless have no idea the definition of building, which is producing jobs and employment, construction new colleges, new hospitals and higher street infrastructure,” Singh stated, including that individuals have made up their minds to offer the AAP a possibility.
Within the run-up to the polls, AAP leaders have accused Channi of no longer doing sufficient for his constituency.
Whilst Delhi Deputy Leader Minister Manish Sisodia visited two colleges and alleged that Channi failed to supply right kind training infrastructure, AAP chief Raghav Chadha centered him over unlawful mining, claims that the Congress chief trashed as baseless.
Additionally within the fray are Harmohan Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Birthday celebration, which is contesting the election in alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal, and the BJP’s Darshan Singh Shivjot. Shivjot claims well being infrastructure is a large factor right here as there are not any clinical amenities in Morinda and humans have to visit Mohali or Chandigarh for remedy.
Elections to the 117-member Punjab Meeting can be hung on February 20. The counting of votes can be taken up on March 10.