SAD to submit memorandums demanding action against Congressmen responsible for liquor, seed, ration scams
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will submit memorandums to the deputy commissioners across the State on June 18 to demand immediate action against Congressmen responsible for the liquor, seed and ration scams. It also demanded to waive off power bills of both domestic and industrial consumers during the lockdown.
Likewise, the party has asked for an immediate release of sugarcane dues to farmers, direct compensation to farmers in lieu of increased labour charges and restoring all blue cards which had been deleted at the instance of Congressmen.
Former Minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said that a decision to this effect had been taken by the party president Sukhbir Singh Badal after consultation with party leaders.
Dr Cheema said there was growing resentment amongst the people as the real kingpin of the Rs 5,600 crore liquor scam were not being prosecuted. These included the family of the Religious Advisor to the chief minister following the seizure of two trucks of illicit liquor from its sugar mill compound as well as Congress leaders Madan Lal Jalalpur and Hardyal Singh Kamboj who were running an illegal distillery cum bottling plant through their front men.
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It said that the government was also trying to bury the Rs 4,000 crore seed scam by going after the small fish even as the real kingpin roamed scot-free. It said that the role of Cooperation minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa should be probed in the seed scam but said this would be possible only if there was an independent inquiry into the case by the CBI or a sitting judge of the high court.
-PTC News
