Punjab Congress Chief Partap Singh Bajwa today appealed to the people not to be lured by false promises made by SAD-BJP combine during last assembly polls, while casting votes in the May 19 local bodies elections.
Addressing a series of election rallies during his whirlwind tour of Nawanshahr, Ropar and Mohali districts, Bajwa asked voters not to be lured by catchy statements made by the coalition government.
For the past six years, the SAD-BJP government was surviving on press statements and repeating same set of promises every six months, he said.
The SAD-BJP government had cheated the youth on fake promises of paying unemployment allowance, he alleged and added, besides an unemployment allowance of Rs 1000 per month, SAD promised free education to poor and weaker sections, laptops to students of up to XIIth standard.
Now the state government has included a condition that unemployment allowance will be paid to those who are registered in employment exchanges for more than three years, Bajwa said.
Instead of providing free education to poor and weaker sections, the state government has withdrawn the facility of free education available to girls studying in XIth and XIIth standards.
