Captain Amarinder Singh has started work on implementing Congress s 18 poll manifesto promises
Chandigarh:
A day after the Congress high command publicly said that it has directed Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to work on implementing the party s 18 key poll manifesto promises within a timeframe, the chief minister set the ball rolling.
Captain Singh is racing against time as the assembly elections in Punjab are due in February-March next year.
Participating in state-level celebrations on Bhagat Kabir Ji Jayanti in Jalandhar through video conferencing, the Chief Minister listed the various welfare schemes for the underprivileged being implemented by his government.
The state has a Scheduled Caste population of 31.9 per cent and the three-member panel, appointed to resolve the Punjab crisis, had also recommended representation of every section in the state cabinet.