Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday mocked the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ election campaign as a ridiculous “jumla”, which will not solve any real problems of the people of India.

“Such slogans do not help fill the stomachs of our poor people, they do not give jobs to our youth,” Capt Amarinder said in an informal chat with mediapersons after a meeting with MLAs, zone in-charges and heads of frontal organizations of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) from Patiala, convened to review the party’s preparedness from the Patiala constituency.

The ‘jumla’ party failed to deliver on any promise all these years, and was now resorting to more ‘jumlebaazi’ in a desperate bid to win votes, said the Chief Minister, adding that the people of India were fed up with these hollow slogans and promises. They wanted to know what the BJP-led Government had done for them in the last five years, he added.

Declaring the PPCC to be fully prepared for the Lok Sabha polls, Capt Amarinder said that he was confident that the party would win all the 13 seats in Punjab. “The Congress is in a very strong position in the state,” he said, reiterating his earlier stand that the party did not need any alliance and would go it alone in the state.

Asked if the recent Indian Air Force (IAF) air strikes would make a difference to the poll-scape, the Chief Minister said that was not likely to happen as what the BJP government did was nothing exceptional. “It is the duty of the Government in power to retaliate after the Pulwama attacks and even the Congress would have done the same had it been in power,” he added. Pointing out that the defence services were apolitical in nature, which made them the real ‘chowkidars’ of India, the CM lashed out at the BJP for seeking to politicize the forces.