DODA (GIDDERBAHA): The Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh, on June 17 said that the alliance between the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was “unholy and short-lived.” Congress had fought single handedly against the seven party alliances in the by-elections. He said that people had voted for the Congress because of its policies of secularism and development. Mr. Beant Singh said that the opposition parties which had formed an alliance against the Congress could not pull along because of ideological differences. The biggest victory of his government was that the Akali leadership which was averse to contesting elections, had joined the mainstream.
He said that response received by the Congress in the Giddertaha elections had established the fact that people of the state wanted peace and development.”
Article extracted from this publication >> June 23, 1995
