The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday said the Congress government had run away from discussing emergent people issues including the farm crisis and denial of social welfare benefits to Dalits and poor because it had nothing to show by way of performance.
In a statement here, former ministers Parminder Singh Dhindsa and Bikram Singh Majithia said the SAD- BJP legislature group had submitted two adjournment motions on the failure of the government to even start implementation of the Rs 90,000 crore farm loan waiver due to which 300 farmers had committed suicide as well as denial of social welfare benefits to the weaker sections.
The government even did not allow a debate of its failure to bring parity of sugarcane assured price with Haryana due to which sugar barons associated with it are benefitting. Similarly the plight of potato farmers was also ignored and no support was announced for them. "We maintained that there was nothing more important that these two issues but both adjournment motions were rejected on flimsy grounds", they said.
