BJP national vice-president laxmi Kanta Chawla on Tuesday hit out at her party's alliance Government in Punjab for ignoring the martyrs. “The State ignored the martyrdom of soldiers, and ‘wasted precious money’ on performances by film actors,” said BJP’s firebrand leader.
Senior BJP leader and Punjab’s former Cabinet Minister said that three jawans belonging to Punjab were killed in militant attacks in Jammu & Kashmir. “They were cremated with full State honours but the State Government doesn’t seem to be saddened by the incident,” she said.
Chawla, while referring to the inaugural ceremony of fifth Kabaddi World Cup in Jalandhar on December 6 wherein actors Sonakshi Sinha and Arjun Kapoor performed and where Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Deputy son Sukhbir Badal were present, alleged that while the State Government spends lavishly on performances by film stars, it “hesitates to give even a few lakhs to the martyrs’ families”.