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SAD asks Capt Amarinder to desert Punjabis and pay attention to tackling COVID-19

Chandigarh, April 19, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh not to desert Punjabis is this hour of crisis and pay attention to his official duties and tackle the COVID -19 crisis in the State instead of indulging in loose talk and using crude and vulgar language when faced with facts.

In a statement here, SAD leaders Balwinder Singh Bhundur and Maheshinder Singh Grewal said it was shameful that the chief minister was expending his energies to deride Union food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal simply because she had told him that his government had received Rs 3,485 crore from the centre since March 20 this year.

“Instead of bad mouthing a woman Union minister it would have been better if you had told Punjabis clearly whether this money had been received by the State or not ? Today Mrs Badal has released proof of the money sent to the State. Who will prove to be a liar today?” the SAD leaders asked the chief minister.

Asking the chief minister not to use bluster to run away from reality, the SAD leaders said now it had also come to light that the State government had Rs 6,000 core lying with it under the State Disaster Relief Fund. “Will you be so kind as to tell why you have not released any money to the farmers, daily wagers and labourers who experiencing extreme hardship and are looking up to you for relief?”, the leaders asked Capt Amarinder.

Telling the chief minister to leave all his pleasurable pasttimes and devote time to the State in this hour of crisis, Mr Bhundur and Mr Grewal said Capt Amarinder alone was responsible for the Punjab government’s failure to rein in COVID-19 cases which were growing exponentially by ten per cent per day. “Your own Additional chief secretary KBS Sidhu has volunteered this information through a tweet. Will you call him a liar also?”

The SAD leaders also pointed out that Mrs Harsimrat Badal had rightly asked the chief minister to ensure direct transfer of funds to those who were suffering as well as ramp up health infrastructure and ensure PPE kits, masks and gloves to front line workers because Punjab was a laggard in this regard.

“Instead of taking this constructive criticism in the right spirit you launched a tirade against her. Punjabis today are asking why you cannot double salaries of health workers on the lines of Haryana or why you are not paying salaries to nurses. Please solve these problems before trying to use gutter language to hit out at your opponents”, the SAD leaders advised the chief minister.

Mr Bhundur and Mr Grewal also asked the chief minister to examine his conscience to understand that he was the real liar who had not only lied to Punjabis but had even lied on the holy Gutka Sahib and the name of Dasam Pitah Guru Gobind Singh Ji. “Once you understand this fact you will not use the term so loosely”, the SAD leaders told the chief minister.


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