Amarinder keen to contest against Punjab CM Badal from Lambi

January 14, 2017 21:08

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh today said he has sought the party high command's permission to fight the upcoming Assembly election from Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's assembly constituency of Lambi to ensure the "total defeat" of the Akali leadership in the state.

Amarinder was talking to reporters here to welcome into the Congress fold former AAP leader Daljit Singh.

He said he wanted to fight against the Chief Minister on his home turf as he wished to defeat all the top Akali leaders "responsible for destroying the state through drugs, mafia and the goonda raj".

The PPCC chief said he had requested the Congress high command to allow him to fight the Assembly polls from Lambi so that he could free Punjab from the "vicious and destructive rule of the Badals".

He said he desired to fight both Lambi and Patiala, if permitted by the party.

"The entire state is in shambles," Amarinder alleged and lambasted Badal as well as his family and associates for bringing Punjab to such a "shameful state".

The former Punjab chief minister cited the example of the Nabha jail break to point out how "goondas were being allowed a free run in the state to help the Akalis during the polls".

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