‘Trying to ameliorate sufferings of have-nots’

Sukhwinder Singh, Jandiala Guru

I have donned the role of a social worker to ameliorate the sufferings of have-nots and needy in my constituency, housing over 2.5 lakh people. Each family has different nature of trouble.

I helped a family of Romana Chak village to hospitalise a woman after she fractured her hip following a fall. I also reunited a family of Talwandi Dogra village with their less than 10-year-old kids, who got stranded at Malout. A kidney patient with sudden pain needed to be hospitalised at night. These are only some instances. Otherwise, my phone keeps ringing, ensuring me that I am in touch with my electorates.

My mother Gurbachan Kaur contributed Rs10 lakh out of her personal savings. Likewise, my friends, well-wishers and I also contributed to the ration supply.

Thanks to CM Capt Amarinder Singh for imposing the curfew before the Centre because of which the state had lesser number of positive cases than others.

I made the challenging grain lifting in the harvest season a smooth sail by opening Bandala village’s grain market after a gap of nearly three decades. So, farmers need not go out of the constituency. Before the grain-lifting exercise, the entire area was sanitised.

Entire constituency, including 122 panchayats, was sanitised immediately after the imposition of the curfew. In my constituency, only one positive case was found in a returnee from England. All members of his joint family were screened and his entire locality was re-sanitised to ensure there was no infection.

I pray to God to save humanity from the clutches of the novel coronavirus.

(As told to Neeraj Bagga)