Union Minister for Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday challenged the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to list their achievements for the welfare of farmers in Punjab and other States.
Harsimrat, inaugurating development projects at Mana village in Muktsar district, said that the Congress and AAP, which has never done anything for the betterment of the farmers, are now playing petty politics in the name of farmers just to get political ground on false promises nearing elections.
She said that Captain Amarinder had imposed electricity bills on tubewells of farmers whereas SAD-BJP alliance is continuously providing free power to farmers for irrigation of Rs5,000 crore annually.
SAD-BJP launched various welfare schemes for the welfare of farmers which include doubling crop compensation, health insurance cover, provided Rs644 crore for the cotton crop damaged due to whitefly, she said.
“Punjab Government is successfully running welfare schemes for various sections of the society such Atta Dal Scheme, Bhagat Puran Singh Health Insurance Scheme, Pension Schemes etc,” she said adding that the Government is connecting all cites with four and six lanes with the investment of Rs 40,000 crores which would increase the investment in the state with uninterrupted road connectivity.
Commenting on Capt Amarinder Singh, she said that earlier Captain betrayed the Patialvis and now people of Sri Amritsar Sahib. “Captain’s performance in Vidhan Sabha and lok Sabha has been zero. On the other side, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal always remain among the people and directly interact with the masses to redress their problems,” she said.