SAD-BJP delegation meets Governor to press upon the state government
SAD-BJP delegation meets Governor to press upon the state government : A joint SAD-BJP delegation today urged Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore to direct the Congress government to implement a complete Rs 90,000 crore or all farm loan waiver farmers and ensure loans of farm laborers and Dalits are also waived off.
It also requested the Governor to ask the State government to get all sacrilege cases occurring during the previous SAD-BJP government as well as the present Congress tenure inquired by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court. The delegation also urged the Governor to direct the government to register a criminal case against the Sanaur leader Harinderpal Mann for instigating Congress workers to murder their Akali counterparts.
The joint delegation, which was headed by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and BJP State president Vijay Sampla, briefed the Governor about the manner in which the Congress government had deceived and betrayed farmers by refusing to honour its commitment to implement a complete loan waiver.
Delegation brought in notice the promise of Capt Amarinder that all loans taken from banks and private money lenders would be waived off and submitted the video recording.
Exposing the limited crop loan scheme initiated by the Congress government, the SAD president said only a limited loan of a few per cent of the indebted farmers was being considered for waiver whereas an assurance was given by the chief minister in the Vidhan Sabha that the complete loan would be waived.
SAD MPs Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Prem Singh Chandumajra said due to the flawed nature of the present scheme, suicides by farmers, which had already reached the 350 figure mark, were increasing by the day.
In a separate memorandum by the SAD-BJP delegation also urged the Governor to direct Congress government to set up an inquiry headed by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court in all cases of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in the tenure of both the SAD-BJP government and the present regime of Amarinder Singh.
It said the inquiry into incidents of alleged false cases registered during SAD-BJP tenure, which was being done by known Congressman Justice (retd) Mehtab Singh Gill who had even sublet his house to the Congress party during the Moga byelection in 2013, should also be handed over to a sitting judge of SC.
The delegation also urged to ask the Punjab government to register a criminal case against Sanaur Congress leader Harinderpal Singh Mann and withdraw assent given to appoint him as member of the Syndicate of Punjabi University, Patiala. It said Mann had instigated Congressmen to murder their Akali counterparts.
- PTC News
