<p>Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said the former chief minister Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government had to be replaced as it was being run by the BJP from Delhi.</p>.<p>She also attacked the Aam Aadmi Party, accusing it of doing nothing in Delhi and said its government has been a "failure".</p>.<p>Vadra was addressing a "Navi Soch, Nava Punjab" public meeting here ahead of the upcoming Punjab Assembly polls.</p>.<p>Referring to Singh's tenure as chief minister, Vadra, without naming him, said, "It is true that for five years we had a government here, it is also true that there were some deficiencies in that government. It got lost somewhere on the way."</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election/punjab/family-above-everything-cong-mp-preneet-kaur-says-in-support-of-husband-capt-amarinder-1080324.html" target="_blank">Family above everything: Cong MP Preneet Kaur says in support of husband Capt Amarinder</a></strong></p>.<p>"That government stopped running from Punjab. That government started being run from Delhi and that too not by the Congress but by the BJP and the BJP-led government," she said.</p>.<p>"That hidden nexus has come out in the open today. That is why we had to change that government," the Congress general secretary added.</p>.<p>Singh resigned as chief minister in September last year following a bitter power tussle with state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.</p>.<p>Singh later quit the Congress and launched his own party, Punjab Lok Congress (PLC).</p>.<p>The PLC is contesting the state assembly polls in alliance with the BJP and the Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa-led Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt).</p>.<p>Hitting out at the AAP over its Delhi model, Vadra cautioned voters against falling for the party's claims.</p>.<p>"There is another political party which has come from Delhi. You are being shown a Delhi model through advertisements and people come to you and propagate the Delhi model and the (work done by the) government in Delhi," she said.</p>.<p>Vadra told the people at the gathering that they should not forget that the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014 on the basis of the Gujarat model.</p>.<p>"There were big advertisements (claiming) so much development took place in Gujarat, everybody is getting rich, everything is prosperous. But what happened? That model was only in advertisements," she said.</p>.<p>The AAP government has been a "failure" in Delhi, she said.</p>.<p>Punjab goes to the polls on February 20. The counting of votes will be taken up on March 10.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest DH videos here</strong></p>
<p>Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said the former chief minister Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government had to be replaced as it was being run by the BJP from Delhi.</p>.<p>She also attacked the Aam Aadmi Party, accusing it of doing nothing in Delhi and said its government has been a "failure".</p>.<p>Vadra was addressing a "Navi Soch, Nava Punjab" public meeting here ahead of the upcoming Punjab Assembly polls.</p>.<p>Referring to Singh's tenure as chief minister, Vadra, without naming him, said, "It is true that for five years we had a government here, it is also true that there were some deficiencies in that government. It got lost somewhere on the way."</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election/punjab/family-above-everything-cong-mp-preneet-kaur-says-in-support-of-husband-capt-amarinder-1080324.html" target="_blank">Family above everything: Cong MP Preneet Kaur says in support of husband Capt Amarinder</a></strong></p>.<p>"That government stopped running from Punjab. That government started being run from Delhi and that too not by the Congress but by the BJP and the BJP-led government," she said.</p>.<p>"That hidden nexus has come out in the open today. That is why we had to change that government," the Congress general secretary added.</p>.<p>Singh resigned as chief minister in September last year following a bitter power tussle with state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.</p>.<p>Singh later quit the Congress and launched his own party, Punjab Lok Congress (PLC).</p>.<p>The PLC is contesting the state assembly polls in alliance with the BJP and the Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa-led Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt).</p>.<p>Hitting out at the AAP over its Delhi model, Vadra cautioned voters against falling for the party's claims.</p>.<p>"There is another political party which has come from Delhi. You are being shown a Delhi model through advertisements and people come to you and propagate the Delhi model and the (work done by the) government in Delhi," she said.</p>.<p>Vadra told the people at the gathering that they should not forget that the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014 on the basis of the Gujarat model.</p>.<p>"There were big advertisements (claiming) so much development took place in Gujarat, everybody is getting rich, everything is prosperous. But what happened? That model was only in advertisements," she said.</p>.<p>The AAP government has been a "failure" in Delhi, she said.</p>.<p>Punjab goes to the polls on February 20. The counting of votes will be taken up on March 10.</p>.<p><strong>Check out latest DH videos here</strong></p>