See work done by PM for PB and Sikh qaum before making flippant statements- Sukhbir Badal to CM
See work done by PM for PB and Sikh qaum before making flippant statements- Sukhbir Badal to CM
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said Congress chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh could not see the work done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Punjab as well as the Sikh community because he lived in an ivory tower away from the people and their problems.
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The SAD President, who interacted with party workers here, asked Capt Amarinder to tell what he had done for Punjab in the last nearly two years instead of trying to deflect attention from his failures by talking about what the PM had done. “The people of Punjab know what the PM has done and even thanked him for the same at Gurdaspur two days back. They are however waiting for you to give your report card”.
Asserting that Amarinder was refusing to talk about his performance because he had failed on all fronts, Mr Badal said the CM had betrayed farmers by promising a complete loan waiver of Rs 90,000 crore and then going back on it. He said similarly each and every section of society be it the youth who were promised “ghar ghar naukari” or Dalits and the poor whose benefits had been stopped to even employees - all were feeling betrayed by the Congress party.
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The SAD president said this was not all. “The Sikh community is feeling it has been backstabbed by one of its own with Capt Amarinder giving a clean chit to 1984 genocide perpetrator Jagdish Tytler. “The chief minister has compounded this mistake by coming out with repeated statements discounting the evidence of 1984 widows and claiming Rajiv Gandhi did not have anything to do with the mass murder of Sikhs in 1984”.
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Stating that facts spoke for themselves and that one could not obliterate them by resorting to political skulduggery, Mr Badal said the discrimination meted out to Punjab by successive Congress governments had been reversed during NDA rule. “Punjab has witnessed a road network worth Rs 30,000 crore coming up during NDA rule. New airports have come up. Projects like the Shahpur Kandi dam and relining of the Sirhind and Rajasthan canals have been sanctioned. An IIM and AIIMS institute is coming up. Farmers have seen a huge boost in income due to implementation of the Swaminathan report and increase in msp on foodgrains and cotton”.
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Mr Badal said PM Narendra Modi was also credited with resolving long pending issues of the Sikh community. He said the PM accepted the request of the SAD and formed a SIT to reopen 1984 mass murder cases which had been closed by the Congress. He said besides this the PM acted decisively unlike former PM Indira Gandhi by taking a decision to establish a corridor to link Indian territory with Sri Kartarpur Sahib through a corridor. “I feel you (Amarinder) should reflect on the magnitude of these decisions before making flippant statements”, he added.
Others present on the occasion included Muktsar legislator Kanwarjit Singh Barkandi and Charanjit Brar besides others.
-PTC NEWS
