Mahila Congress to wave black flags at Narendra Modi during his Punjab trip

PHAGWARA: Mahila Congress activists would wave black flags at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during his proposed visit to Punjab on December 21 to address a rally in Moga.

Punjab Pradesh Mahila Congress president Malti Thapar, who hails from Moga, accused Modi of carrying out surveillance on a woman in Gujarat "negating her right to privacy" and claimed that the people wouldn't support such a person.

Asserting that the so-called "Modi factor was no factor" at all in the coming Lok Sabha elections, Thapar accused Modi of communalising and polarising the country's politics.

"Wherever Modi goes to address rally, he leaves behind a trail of miserable defeat for his party or its allies. This will prove true for Punjab too as the SAD-BJP combine is bound to get a nasty drubbing in LS polls," she said.

Dubbing the Punjab government a "mafia", Thapar alleged that there was a nexus between ruling Akali Dal leaders, drug mafia and a section of police. To substantiate it, she referred to the alleged involvement of Akali leader Maninder Singh Aulakh in the multi-crore drug racket.

"What action has Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal taken against Akali MLA Amarpal Singh Bony Ajnala whose gunmen and beacon-fitted car Aulakh had used?" she asked.