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Samajwadi Party keen on spreading its base in Punjab

Chandigarh: Noting that the population of migratory labourers in Punjab is in lakhs, the Samajwadi Party on Thursday said that its target is to spread its base in the border state and redress grievances of the people influxed from other states.

“Winning or losing does not matter to the Samajwadi Party in the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab...our target is to strengthen the party in state, party’s Punjab state president Teja Singh Tiwana told reporters here.

“The Samajwadi Party will become a power to reckon with in Punjab in the next Assembly elections in the state.

The party has fielded its candidates on six out of 13 Lok Sabha seats. These included Anandpur Sahib, Faridkot, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Sangrur.

The migratory labourers in Punjab has no representation as far as political parties are concerned in the state, Mr. Tiwana, who was flanked by the six party candidates and election campaign committee secretary Naveen Sharma, asserted.

“The party will build up as a well knitted organisation in the state,” he said adding “it’s the first step towards building the party in the state.”

He assured that the party will strive hard to redress the grievances of migratory population running in lakhs in the state.

He said that the politics in Punjab is limited to the families of present Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his predecessor Capt Amarinder Singh. “Our aim is to bring the politics out of these two families in the state,” he added.

“Our idea is to set up a polity base instead of families base in the state,” he said.

He lashed out at both Badal and Amaridner for allegedly doing nothing for the migratory population in Punjab.

Mr. Tiwana said that the party had decided to field its candidates on all the 117 constituencies in the next Assembly elections.

To garner support for party candidates in the Lok Sabha polls, party’s general secretary Sanjay Dutt and son of party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav will address series of election meetings at Anandpur Sahib, Ludhiana and Gurdaspur on May 8, he said. -PTI

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