Cong MLA gives month’s salary

Chandigarh: Hours after Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh tweeted an appealed to all to join the state government in assisting flood-affected people, Qudian Congress MLA Fateh Jung Bajwa decided to donate his one month’s salary and appealed to his colleagues to follow the suit. He reminded them of Kerala floods, when all party MLAs had donated their one month’s salary. He said flooding in the Sutlej due to the discharge of water from Bhakra, the heaviest since 1988, had caused extensive damage to the standing crops and inundation residential areas in the villages. —TNS