‘Will review rejected farmer suicide claims’

Tribune News Service

Amloh, August 23

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today claimed that the Opposition was projecting false figures of farmer suicide cases in Mansa. Farmers dying of diseases such as cardiac arrests were also being projected as suicides to defame the SAD government, he said.

Sukhbir, who was in town to hold a Sangat Darshan programme, said there could be some technical error and the government would review the same as to how more than 100 claim applications against farmer suicides were rejected.

He claimed that the SAD Government would hit a hat-trick in the upcoming poll and all the villages would get concrete streets and drains, regarding which a plan worth Rs 30,000 crore was afoot.

Sukhbir took a dig at the parties in fray for the 2017 elections on the occasion. He challenged the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi Government to match the achievements of the SAD-BJP Government.

He lashed out at Fatehgarh Sahib MP Harinder Singh Khalsa for his failure to bring any development project to the region and urged people not to vote blindly for the new party which “did not have any concern for the people of Punjab”.

Hitting out at the Congress, Sukhbir said the Congress Government of 2002-2007, led by Capt Amarinder Singh, did nothing on the development front and cannot list even a single achievement.

Commenting on the Sunil Jakhar’s claim that SAD MP Sher Singh Gubaya had demanded a separate capital for the state in Parliament in 2015, Sukhbir said Chandigarh belonged to Punjab and the state would get its legitimate right.

The Deputy CM also disbursed development grants to 50 panchayats of Amloh.

Meanwhile, AAP ticket contender from Amloh, Dr Raghbir Shukla, joined the Akali Dal.