The Punjab Congress on Wednesday came down heavily on Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal holding his Government responsible for the mess into which the State had landed due to utter mismanagement on the food procurement front.
“It is your own Government at the Centre which has curtailed the flow of finances to Punjab, holding your Government accountable for the mismanagement on the food procurement as the State Government is yet to settle the accounts. This is for the first time that Punjab is confronted with such a situation,” said the State Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa.
He said that the farmers were not being paid for days, and the commission agents have gone on strike due to non-payment by the procurement agencies.