Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday strongly condemned the Congress Government for “insulting and demeaning” the farmers by instructing the bank officials to hold dharnas (sit-ins) in front of their houses to force them to repay their bank dues.
“Congress has shown its real face to the farmer community by passing such inhuman instructions to bank officials,” said former minister and SAD vice president Daljit Singh Cheema.
He added, by holding dharnas in front of houses of farmers who were already aggrieved due to the Congress Government failure to waive off their loans, the bank officials had crossed all limits.
“Earlier these officials were pasting notices on farmers’ houses and even making public denouncing them as defaulters through loudspeakers. But by now holdsing dharnas, they have done the unthinkable,” said Cheema adding that they should know that it is the Government which is responsible for farmers not paying their loans.
“If they have to hold dharnas, they should hold them in front of elected Congress representatives, ministers and even the Chief Minister and not farmer houses,” he added. Condemning the Punjab Agricultural Development Bank officials’ action, who recently held dharnas in the houses of farmers.