Chandigarh, March 17: Leader of the Opposition Sukhpal Khaira said here today that at least 374 farmers and farm labourers had committed suicide since the Capt Amarinder Singh government took over a year ago. This fact belies the Congress’ pre-poll promise of writing off debt of all affected farmers, Khaira said at a press conference jointly organised by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) leaders.
The two parties released a ‘chargesheet’ against the Congress government, hours before the LIP decided to withdraw support to AAP.
The government has waived only 0.33 per cent (Rs 332.16 crore) of the debt of Rs 1 lakh crore, Khaira added.
On the drug menace, Khaira said the situation was the same as during the SAD-BJP rule despite Capt Amarinder’s promise of eradicating it within four weeks of assuming power.
He said the government, in order to hoodwink the youth, was organising “job fairs” which were a mere reflection of respective campus placements of the colleges.
He said the families of Capt Amarinder and former CM Parkash Singh Badal were playing a friendly match as the CM was not initiating action against the latter over ill-gotten wealth.
Khaira said the only difference was that under the Congress, the Akali-sponsored mafia had taken a backseat and the ruling party’s leaders had come to the fore to hijack the trades of mining, real estate, cable network, liquor, truck unions, “goonda” tax etc.
Ludhiana: Shortly after breaking the alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party, LIP chief and local MLA Simarjit Singh Bains said former minister Bikram Singh Majithia should be arrested on the basis of evidence submitted by the Special Task Force (STF).
“Arvind Kejriwal has deceived Punjabis by tendering an apology to Majithia. Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh should order Majithia’s arrest at the earliest,” he said.
Ropar: Aam Aadmi Party legislator Amarjit Singh Sandoa has expressed solidarity with Arvind Kejriwal over the apology to Bikram Majithia in a defamation case.
Sandoa said he shared other party MLAs’ sentiments over the move, but he still considered Kejriwal as the leader and would not leave the party at any cost. The taxi driver-turned-politician added that he would take up the issue with Kejriwal.
Source Tribune India
