Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh addresses an election meeting at Laladi village in the Haroli segment on Tuesday.

Our Correspondent

Una, November 7

Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was visiting every district to address public meetings because the BJP was sensing defeat in the elections.Addressing a public meeting at Laladi village in Haroli in support of Congress candidate Mukesh Agnihotri, he said a BJP rout was imminent which would be followed by another one in Gujarat.Amarinder Singh said while in the Army in 1962, he had been deputed on the Indo-China border in Kinnaur district and it took his Company 14 days to travel from Shimla to the border post, while the same distance could be covered in five hours now. He said Virbhadra, a six-time Chief Minister, had ushered in development in the state.The Punjab CM said since Himachal was a hill state, it took enormous amount of resources to provide drinking water, electricity and roads, besides other infrastructure like health and education, to the remotest corners. Despite the constraints, the successive Congress governments had kept up the pace of development.Shrugging BJP allegations that the drug mafia had spread its network in Haroli in the last five years, Amarinder said the drug mafia had established in Punjab during the Akali Dal-BJP rule, adding that after he came to power, more than 4,000 anti-social elements had been put behind bars. He said the BJP was launching a misleading tirade against the Congress which was an abuse to the honest and hard working people.