Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Amarinder Singh
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
If a constable is a woman, she does the same job as a man.
I can't change my ministers. They are all doing a good job.
With its largely agrarian society, Punjab is affected more than many other states by the Centre's anti-farmer stance.
With industrial revival, I see a lot of jobs coming in for the youth of Punjab.
The reason I vouched for reopening liquor vends despite the pandemic was that there was no other source of revenue than excise duty.
Delhi is a Punjabi city and everyone has relations in Punjab.
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.
India's lifeline is the farmers and its agriculture system, and destroying them would mean an end for the country's food security and self-sufficiency.
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.
The Badals have grown richer while Punjab is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Putting money into a cenotaph is not really worth it.
Anti-incumbency against Akalis is so strong and severe that the Akali leaders do not venture out in public without extra security.
Time is over for hate politics.
I have never looked at Bargari as a political issue.
When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.
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.
I speak my heart out. My outspokenness and forthrightness won hearts.
Administrative failures can lead to severe political crisis - Parkash Singh Badal is a perfect example.
Punjab has to tighten its belt and increase its revenue.
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.
Unfortunately, when the drug problem started some years ago, nobody took it seriously.
In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.
We can bring diversification through industry.
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.
The BJP lacks the sense of history.
We have had 10 years of bad governance, and we may not recover if another bad government is elected.
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.
If the Government can talk to China, which has been infiltrating into our territories and grabbing our land for months now, why should they suspend talks with their own farmers, our own people?
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.
Industry has left Punjab. Economy has collapsed.
Every farmer in Punjab grows paddy and wheat besides cotton in the south western districts.
Why should somebody who joined the Congress three years ago become the president in place of Jakhar who has spent his life in the party?
Let me say at the outset, there would be no space for vendetta politics in Punjab.
As elected representatives, MLAs are accountable to the people and I will not allow anyone to undermine their importance.
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.
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?
I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.
As for people questioning the Balakot strikes, I think people have the right to question.
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.
Today your technology is far more sophisticated. Forget about sending a reconnaissance aircraft, your satellites provide you information on a minute-to-minute basis. Similarly, when missiles were fired, every missile has a camera in its cone, on its nose, and it keeps relaying information until the point of its impact.
We have controlled the law and order to ensure that the people of Punjab can live and breathe in peace, without fear.
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.
The Akalis, for 10 years, messed up Punjab, and the Aam Aadmi Party is totally inexperienced - all they do is shout.
While we do not want war, we will not tolerate any bullying by Beijing.
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.
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.
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.
While the peace process should continue, India must not lower its guard. We can't allow our people, soldiers and police to be killed by militants from across the border - Pakistan needs to own up responsibility.
In 1947, who was the PM? In 1962, who was the PM? Similarly, in 1965 and 1971, who was the PM? We divided Pakistan. Indira Gandhi did it but she never said 'I got it done.'
Those who indulged in the violence at Red Fort were not genuine farmers but some anti-social elements.
Punjab does not want war. Punjab wants peace.
It has become a big tragedy in a way: if somebody's parents has 2 acres, they get them to sell the land and send them abroad. They go abroad and leave their parents in the lurch. It is becoming a big problem. That is why we are concentrating on industrialization of Punjab so that we can create jobs here and keep our children here.
Anyone who feels I am going soft on the drugs menace has not checked out the facts nor seen the situation on the ground.
As the Prime Minister of India, Modiji is as much responsible for the welfare of Punjab as I am and his political affiliations are really not material when it comes to the betterment of any State or its people, including Punjab.
Intelligence inputs are not something one can talk about.
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.
The BJP has been trampling over democratic and constitutional principles since it came to power at the Centre in 2014.
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.
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.
Punjabi farmers are very enterprising, but they need to know where to sell the produce and what the end cost will be.
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