Ludhiana: The Union Minister Manish Tewari on Sunday, cited the comprehensive win in the last Punjab Assembly polls to urge the need to protect the rights and interests of the party workers to ensure victory in the coming 2019 general elections.

He suggested the need for unison between secular and progressive forces of the country to save “the idea of India”.

“It is because of the hard work of the party workers that had ensured a two-third victory for the Congress in Punjab in 2017,” Mr. Tewari said during the occasion of workers meeting organized by the Punjab Congress General Secretary Gurmail Pahalwan.

“If party wants to repeat the feat it must ensure the rights and interests of (the) workers are protected and safeguarded,” he added.

In the last state assembly polls of 2017, Congress managed to win over SAD-BJP alliance in Punjab that too with overwhelming majority.

The victory by Congress workers was hailed by the top senior party leader and national spokesperson for the defeat of the SAD-BJP in the state at a time when BJP ruled many states in the country.

“I know you have great expectations from the government and these expectations are well deserved since you have faced the Akali-BJP onslaught for ten years and then ensured a sweeping victory for the party,” he said.

“Now it is our turn to deliver on those promises and expectations,” he add`ed.

While responding to a question posed to him over the issue of case registered by Haryana Police against former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and businessman Robert Vadra on Saturday regarding the connection with alleged irregularities in a land deal in Gurgaon, Mr. Tewari said it was a case of political vendetta.

Apart from that, the BJP government was able to feel the heat “as it has no defence against the multi-billion Rafale scam, by purchasing the fighter aircrafts for the price two times more than what had been negotiated by the Congress led UPA government”.

He asserted that the government of BJP was attempting to divert the attention and they will fail in this regard.

The Congress member also found an opportunity to criticize the Akalis for slamming the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission which was involved in the probing of sacrilege incidents of 2015 was not fair.

“The (Commission’s) report has not been prepared by the Congress government or the party, but by an independent judicial commission. Who stops them (Akalis) to challenge the report on facts?” he asked.

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