Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday conducted roadshows in various areas of Halka Nakodar in favor of Sushil Kumar Rinku, the Aam Aadmi Party's candidate for the Jalandhar Lok Sabha by-election and appealed to the people to make AAP's candidate win.
In Nakodar, the Chief Minister did a road show from Bilga to Nurmahal. During the roadshow, Chief Minister Mann addressed the gathered crowd at many places and said that after forming the government in Punjab, we started improving government hospitals and government schools. Like Delhi world class schools and schools of Eminence are now being built in Punjab.
Like education, our government has also started a health revolution in Punjab. Within just one year of forming the government, we have opened more than 500 mohalla clinics in Punjab. We inaugurated 80 more Mohalla clinics today. Now there are a total of 580 mohalla clinics in Punjab. So far, more than 20 lakh people have been treated free of cost in these Mohalla clinics and more than 5 lakh people got their tests done.
On employment, the Chief Minister said that we have given government jobs to more than 28,000 youths of Punjab in just one year. After taking the oath of the Chief Minister, in the first cabinet meeting itself, we announced 25,000 government job vacancies. In next four years lacs of jobs and new opportunities will be given to the youth of Punjab.
The Chief Minister said that our government has completely eradicated corruption and the mafia from Punjab. In the last one year, we have taken action against hundreds of corrupt officers, employees and leaders and sent them to jail. During the previous governments, land mafia, sand mafia, cable mafia and drugs mafia were rampant in Punjab as the people in power patronized them. We eliminated all kinds of mafias from Punjab and established a transparent governance.
Appealing to the people of Jalandhar to make the AAP candidate win, the Chief Minister said that this election will not make any difference to the BJP and the Congress. But Sushil Rinku's victory will boost our spirits, after which we will work even harder and with more dedication for the people of Punjab.