PATHANKOT: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday gave a lesson on
Punjabiyat
to Punjabis while sharing concerns of farmers who had agitated for over a year against the controversial farm laws.
Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal talking of Punjabiyat "makes me laugh", she said. "How much underst anding do they have of Punjabiyat? Yo u have to live Punjabiyat to understand it. It is a sentiment” she said.
“I am married in a Punjabi family. I'll tell you what Punjabiyat is. My father-in-law left everything in Pakistan to start his business in Moradabad. This is Punjabiyat, which is service, hard work and honesty. Punjabiyat never bows before anyone except the Almighty. ”
“The leaders of political parties who talk about Punjabiyat before you, one of them (Narendra Modi) has already bowed before his rich industrialist friends while the other, Arvind Kejriwal, will bow before anyone for power. I have come here today to tell you this truth,” she added.
About small and medium businessmen, she sa id their predicaments had augmented due to demonetisation, GST and lockdown but they didn’t get any relief from the Centre. Public sector units were the main sources of generating employment, but they were sold to the two industrialists close to the PM, she alleged.