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AICC wide caput in-charge of Punjab Bhupesh Baghel connected Sunday (January 11, 2026) said the Congress volition contention the 2027 State polls nether the corporate enactment of the party.
Addressing a property league successful Bathinda, Mr. Baghel said each elder leaders of the enactment are main ministerial faces.
He was accompanied by Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Congress Legislative Party person Partap Singh Bajwa and different leaders.
Mr. Baghel said that but for the 2017 Punjab elections, erstwhile Amarinder Singh was declared the main ministerial candidate, the Congress has ever fought elections nether associated leadership.
The last determination connected the main ministerial campaigner would beryllium taken by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, helium said.
Mr. Baghel was successful Punjab connected the last limb of the archetypal signifier of the Congress' 'MGNREGA Bachao Sangram', a wide outreach programme against the Union government's determination to regenerate MGNREGA with the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajiveeka Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act.
The erstwhile Chhattisgarh Chief Minister said the programme received beardown nationalist support, including from Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) workers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was bent connected destroying the agrarian economy. MGNREGA was a rights-based instrumentality brought by the Congress to guarantee 100 days of employment for agrarian labourers, and scrapping it would snatch their close to work, Mr. Baghel charged.
Referring to the Centre-State backing ratio, helium claimed that respective States were incapable to instrumentality cardinal schemes owed to deficiency of funds.
He asked however could States similar Punjab lend 40% nether the VB-G RAM G Act erstwhile they were struggling adjacent with smaller contributions.
He further claimed that Punjab was nearing bankruptcy, with its indebtedness crossing ₹4 lakh crore. The AAP authorities has failed to unfastened caller schools, colleges oregon hospitals successful the past 4 years, helium charged.
Existing wellness facilities were renamed arsenic Aam Aadmi Clinics, which had besides "failed", helium added.
Funds meant for labourers were being diverted to payment a fewer industrialists, the Congress wide caput alleged.
Rejecting the BJP's allegations of corruption successful MGNREGA, Mr. Baghel asked wherefore nary enactment was taken during the past 11 years.
He besides expressed interest implicit the instrumentality and bid concern successful Punjab, alleging that it has witnessed a implicit breakdown.
There person been 9 murders successful the authorities successful the archetypal 10 days of the New Year, helium claimed.
