Words matter. These are the best Amarinder Singh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Government better be on its toes. I have been warning them for a long time that Pakistan is trying to infiltrate the borders. Their weapons are coming in.
I represent a state that accounts for most of the food production in India.
The Chinese are just not trustworthy, as we have seen before.
Anyone who feels I am going soft on the drugs menace has not checked out the facts nor seen the situation on the ground.
The Badals have grown richer while Punjab is on the verge of bankruptcy.
The BJP lacks the sense of history.
As a Sikh, I would say that the opening of the Kartarpur corridor is a positive sign for millions, but I am still not very sure of Pakistani designs.
We want to give unemployment allowance and it is just a question of time and fund availability.
See in old days, there were only two parties nationally, Congress and BJP… Now there are regional leaders. Time has come to pick up regional leaders in these national parties and build political campaign around them who can challenge regional parties.
Modi’s impact on Punjab is zero because of large-scale corruption.
In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.
I think we should be very careful in our choice of putting out news which should not create a situation where the morale of our troops goes down.
We must decentralize to deal with regional satraps.
From the CAA to farm laws, all sorts of legislations have been imposed by the BJP aimed at disturbing peace and stability of Punjab and the nation as a whole.
If Punjab could remain unaffected by the Hindutva plank and vote for development agenda, then the tide can, and will, turn in other states too.
Anti-incumbency against Akalis is so strong and severe that the Akali leaders do not venture out in public without extra security.
I speak my heart out. My outspokenness and forthrightness won hearts.
I have a hostile country on my western border. On the north of us, we have China. These two countries are going to collude.
If you are an addict yourself, how are you going to fight drugs? That’s why the dope test is compulsory for Punjab Police personnel and youngsters joining, regardless of what newspapers are saying that women should be exempted.
As far Bikram Singh Majithia is concerned, let me reiterate what I have maintained all through, even during my election rallies. That my government will not indulge in any vendetta politics, but at the same time, anyone found guilty of any crime or misdemeanor will not be spared.
Every farmer in Punjab grows paddy and wheat besides cotton in the south western districts.
Putting money into a cenotaph is not really worth it.
I have never looked at Bargari as a political issue.
I don’t believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.
Punjabi farmers are very enterprising, but they need to know where to sell the produce and what the end cost will be.
Intelligence inputs are not something one can talk about.
I have done over 50 years in politics and this trial by media is unacceptable to me. Anybody can take any stand, and then run editorials… The media creates a hype, the opposition starts shouting, I sack my ministers… how do I run my government?
Arun Jaitely challenged me to a debate on national affairs, but when I said he should include Amritsar and Punjab in the discussion, he shied away. He didn’t agree because he doesn’t know much about Punjab.
You can’t desecrate Guru Granth Sahib, Gita or Quran.
We can bring diversification through industry.
The BJP has been trampling over democratic and constitutional principles since it came to power at the Centre in 2014.
As for people questioning the Balakot strikes, I think people have the right to question.
Punjab makes up 2 per cent of India’s population and yet it produces 40 per cent of the nation’s food pool. Even now, if tomorrow there is famine, it will be the Punjabi farmer who saves you. So, don’t rely on the plenty of today, there may be a paucity tomorrow. Don’t write Punjab off.
Revival of investor confidence and industrial development is, in my opinion, one of the biggest achievements of my government, given the financial mess which we have inherited from the erstwhile Akali government.
We have to penalize those who desecrated Guru Granth Sahib.
We didn’t lose the Punjab State elections for any other reason but the fact that seats were wrongly allocated.
It is not my job, as Chief Minister, to probe crimes or pronounce anyone guilty. My priority lies in bringing Punjab out of the chaos in which it has been left by the previous government.
There are no jobs. People out of sheer frustration say we’ve seen the Akalis, we’ve seen the Congress, let’s give these guys a chance.
You may have Leftist ideologies, southern Punjab always had a leftist ideology.
Delhi is a Punjabi city and everyone has relations in Punjab.
When somebody starts going down, rats start leaving the sinking ship.
Unfortunately, when the drug problem started some years ago, nobody took it seriously.
Those who indulged in the violence at Red Fort were not genuine farmers but some anti-social elements.
The reason I vouched for reopening liquor vends despite the pandemic was that there was no other source of revenue than excise duty.
This whole business of calling farmers all kinds of cheap names, such as Khalistanis, Urban Naxalites, was resorted to by BJP to weaken and damage the farmers’ battle against the farm laws.
Punjab does not want war. Punjab wants peace.
I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University, we don’t have scientists.
Let me say at the outset, there would be no space for vendetta politics in Punjab.
There are critical issues facing us, including handling transportation of lakhs of migrants, completing harvest and procurement on time, supporting poor and needy, and above all, combating the spread of the pandemic.
Maize is used both as fodder and grain in the state. A large number of fodder-baled silage units have come up in Punjab, which take maize crop from the farmers at reasonable price and turn it into baled silage.
The spirit of cooperation between the Centre and states has been diluted in many ways.
Administrative failures can lead to severe political crisis – Parkash Singh Badal is a perfect example.
Till 1966 when the Green Revolution came to Punjab, nobody grew this crop. Only when farmers saw money in it, did they start rice cultivation.
The Modi government says the farm laws will open agriculture to the corporate world. Who says this not already open to corporate sector? In Punjab, we have Pepsi and ITC buying potatoes. All my kinnows from Hoshiarpur and Ferozepur are going to Chennai. The system is already open.
Akalis are going to be down in the dumps, they and the BJP, whether they stay together or fight separately.
As elected representatives, MLAs are accountable to the people and I will not allow anyone to undermine their importance.
We have found Kashmiri terrorists in Punjab. How are we expected to tolerate all this?
I am not striking any note. I am just putting the facts before the people, that it is the Pakistan Army which is spreading terror in India, sending terrorists to Punjab, and I won’t stand for it.
I am thankful to the Almighty that I have been able to sustain with the support of my colleagues and Punjabis within and outside the state.
We have had 10 years of bad governance, and we may not recover if another bad government is elected.
I also welcomed the Kartarpur corridor. I think it is a good step but I can’t go to Pakistan when terrorist acts are being carried out here.
With its largely agrarian society, Punjab is affected more than many other states by the Centre’s anti-farmer stance.
Every member of the Congress has access to the top leadership. It is not a question of proximity but if somebody shares a personal equation with any of the leaders it is really no reason for concern or insecurity as long as it is not at the cost of merit and performance.
When I was in the Western Command from 1964 to 1967, I think 100 strikes must have happened. They just have given it a new name ‘surgical strikes.’ We used to call it cross border raid.
If a constable is a woman, she does the same job as a man.
You know the fact is that whenever there is a celebration for a person as great as Guru Nanakji, it is done by the government.
