On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Ludhiana, Congress workers burnt the 'Chitta Raavan' (drugs effigy) in the industrial town.
State Congress chief Amarinder Singh declared an all-out war against the "Badal-backed mafia", saying with the burning of the 'Chitta Raavan', the stage was set for the "total annihilation of all the criminal forces in the state".
Taking his party's anti-drugs battle to the heart of Ludhiana – the scene of the Dussehra eve attack on Congress workers allegedly by Akali Dal activists – he hailed the blasting of the 'Chitta Raavan'.
Besides that of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, cut-outs of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and state Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia were pasted on the effigies set ablaze by Congress workers.
Amarinder had invited the party workers injured in the Dussehra eve attack to set the 'Chitta Ravan' on fire at the same place where the assault had taken place.
Accusing the Badals of "plunging the state into total anarchy", with the "mafia ruling every part of life", the state Congress chief said, "Badal has shrewdly used the last 10 years of his misrule in Punjab to drain the state of all its glory."
(With inputs from PTI)
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