Chandigarh: After guiding Congress to a thumping victory in the state Assembly polls, senior party leader Captain Amarinder Singh is all set to take oath as the Chief Minister of Punjab on March 16.
The oath taking ceremony will take place on March 16, he said.
He was also unanimously elected as Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader by the newly-elected party MLAs in a meeting held at party office in Chandigarh on Sunday.
Rookie Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) managed to get 20 seats, while SAD-BJP won 18 seats in the state polls. Two seats went into the kitty of AAP's ally lok Insaf Party (LIP). The winning margin of Amarinder from Patiala seat was the highest in the 117-member Punjab Assembly. He won convincingly with a margin of 52,407 votes after defeating his nearest rival AAP candidate Balbir Singh.
He added that false cases were registered under the Akali regime against politicians belonging to Opposition party under the garb of ending drug menace.
To a question on Badal offering support to new Congress government, Verka said the party did not want Badals' support as they were already rejected by the people for their atrocities and scams.
Congress MLA from Dera Baba Nanak, Sukhjidner Randhwa said the schemes started by the SAD-BJP regime would continue, adding that "politicisation" of state police would be put to an end.
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