Punjab elections: Sukhbir Singh Badal, Amarinder trade charges against each other

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal today claimed that the Congress will face its worst-ever defeat in tomorrow's assembly polls and it will mark the end of the political career of former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

In a statement on the eve of polling, Badal said that Amarinder had already announced his retirement plans. "We will give him a royal fair well," said the Punjab deputy Chief Minister.

Badal said that the SAD-BJP alliance is set to return to power with greatly improved figure to serve the people of Punjab for another five years.

Badal said that his party and the alliance partner are fully geared to storm their way back to government and change the 64 old history of an incumbent not returning to power.

"We have changed history already. Never in the past did people ever think just 12 hours before the elections is to start that those in government will come back. This time even our critics are depicting a close fight. That by itself is proof that history has already been changed," he said.

The visibility of development in Punjab over the past five years has been so strong that we are sure that people will not even listen to outdated slogans of the opposition, he said.

Meanwhile, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder appealed to the voters to exercise their franchise cautiously to ensure that the state got a good and clean government which is not corrupt and which does not resort to vendetta.