CM, characteristically high on rhetoric, nil on content: Warring

· Questions CM’s silence over killings by gangsters
· Says, being Convent educated is no crime

CHANDIGARH, July 11: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today criticized the Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann for resorting to his characteristic rhetoric while ignoring the real issues facing the state like the frequent killing of people by gangsters.
CM’s speech in Vidhan Sabha today was the replica of his previous speeches made during the last three and a half years and there was nothing new in it, he remarked.
He took a dig at Chief Minister’s oft-repeated claims about saving and protecting the Punjab waters. “People before you have done a much better job like repealing the law and restoring the land to owners”, he told the Chief Minister asking him to explain what exactly has he done except for sheer rhetoric that “Punjab has no spare water”, which everyone knows.
Reacting to the Chief Minister’s speech in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Warring noted that his (CM’s) speech looked the same as he made two and three years ago. “Nothing has changed in CM’s speeches, not even the anecdotes”, he remarked, while asserting that he should have spoken on pressing issues facing the state.
He observed that the gangsters had held the state to ransom and the government was doing nothing. “People of Punjab expected to listen something reassuring from the Chief Minister after being in power for three and a half years”, he said, while regretting, “but everyone feels disappointed”.
The PCC president refuted the CM’s charge that the Congress had divided people on communal, regional or sectarian lines. “It is the Congress that has kept the country together and also ensured peace in Punjab”, he told the Chief Minister while referring to sacrifices of tens of thousands of Congress workers and leaders in safeguarding the unity and integrity of the country and communal harmony among people.
He also took a dig at the Chief Minister for taunting the leaders who have studied in boarding and convent schools. “Is it a crime to study in the convent schools?” he asked, while pointing out that his own government has been sending teachers to different countries for advanced studies.
Referring to Chief Minister’s suggestion to divert the waters of Chenab to Punjab, Warring said, it was a highly impracticable idea and quite unfeasible. “May be even the CM knows it but has been saying it for the sake of playing to the gallery, as the AAP leaders are famous for”, he remarked.