SAD's Fort Faces Demolishing Blow, Mann Urges Ferozepur Voters to Support Change

This time the fort of Ferozepur also has to be demolished, meaning that the Akali Dal must lose from Ferozepur, Mann said.The Ferozepur seat is currently represented by Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, who has made way for another contestant this time.Mann said that all people of the Badal family have lost elections in the recent past.Only Harsimrat Kaur Badal is left.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday asked voters of the Ferozepur Lok Sabha seat to vote for the AAP and end the Akali Dal supremacy in the constituency.

Mann made the appeal while addressing a public meeting in support of AAP candidate Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar, who is contesting the Ferozepur seat.

''In the 2022 assembly elections, you defeated stalwarts. This time the fort of Ferozepur also has to be demolished, meaning that the Akali Dal must lose from Ferozepur,'' Mann said.

The Ferozepur seat is currently represented by Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, who has made way for another contestant this time.

Mann said that all people of the Badal family have lost elections in the recent past.

''Only Harsimrat Kaur Badal is left. In this election, Harsimrat Kaur's security deposit is going to be forfeited from Bathinda seat. After that, everyone in the Badal family will be defeated. Then they will not blame each other saying 'you lost', 'you lost' because everyone will be a loser,'' he said.

He said the ''dynastic and traditional politicians'' of Punjab are upset that people from ordinary households became MLAs, ministers, and a chief minister.

''These people considered power their birthright and treated posts as their ancestral estates,'' Mann said.

He also took a dig at the former finance minister Manpreet Badal alleging it was his wont to cite an empty state treasury when he was in the post.

''We have never said this till date. We are filling the Punjab government's exchequer,'' he said.

''We have given 43,000 government jobs in the last two years. A total of 829 Aam Aadmi clinics have been built where two crore people have gotten free treatment. Schools of Eminence have been opened,'' the chief minister said.

He added, ''This year, around 2.5 lakh children changed their schools and got themselves enrolled in government schools. I want to change your compulsion into your choice. Today, it is your compulsion to enroll your children in a private school and get treatment in private hospitals because you do not trust government schools and hospitals yet.

''In the coming days, I will make government schools and hospitals so good that choosing private schools and hospitals will be your choice, not compulsion.''

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