Manish Tewari urges people to vote for Cong like they did in 2017 Punjab assembly polls

Senior Congress leader and party candidate for Anandpur Sahib Lok Sabha seat Manish Tewari Thursday asked people to vote for the Congress the way they did for the party in the 2017 Punjab assembly polls.

"The way you voted for Amarinder Singh in 2017 giving him 77 assembly seats, in a similar way you must vote for the Congress this time also as it is the only party that takes along everyone and does not discriminate against anyone irrespective of caste, creed or colour," Tewari said.

Tewari was addressing workers' meeting organised by local MLA Angad Singh after paying obeisance at Khatkar Kalan at the memorial of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh.

The Congress had stormed to power in 2017 by winning 77 of the 117assembly seats in Punjab after a gap of 10 years.

Tewari also said the Lok Sabha poll was a referendum on the "non-performance" of the Modi government at the Centre and the local MP Prem Singh Chandumajra who, the Congress leader alleged, had simply vanished for the last five years.

Former Union minister Tewari said, "The last five years of the NDA rule presided over by Narendra Modi has not only seen the erosion of the democratic institutions, but widespread unemployment and decline in the economy."