Taking on Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal’s estranged nephew Manpreet Badal, Revenue Minister and senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Wednesday said that it was condemnable that the Congress party had chosen a leader who was against extending subsidies to the farmers, Dalits and poor as head of its manifesto committee.
“As finance minister, Manpreet Badal had always publicly criticised the SAD-BJP alliance for extending much needed subsidies to the poor and needy,” said Majithia while addressing a huge youth gathering organised by the Youth Akali Dal (YAD) to pay tribute to Shaheed Bhagat Singh on his 109th birth anniversary.
Majithia said: “How can you expect such a leader to draft a manifesto for the welfare of the people especially when he is on record to be against extending free power subsidy to farmers besides other subsidies being given to scheduled caste, backward caste, economically weaker sections and the trading community of the State.”
“Even as we are providing governance as per a welfare state those who were against this concept are now trying to befool the people for their petty political aims,” he added. Majithia, also the YAD patron, also lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party saying that it was more dangerous than Aurangzeb and East India Company due to double standards of its leaders.