lashing out at the Punjab Congress for presenting memorandum to the Governor on State’s fiscal situation, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday said that after miserably failing to perform its constitutional duty as a responsible Opposition party in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, the party was now running for a cover up and shedding crocodile tears.
SAD secretary and spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema said after committing grave sin of denigrating the highest office of Speaker, breaching security of the state assembly and shamelessly beating the watch and ward staff on duty, the Congress is now resorting to cheap tactics to save its image in the eyes of public.
“The Congress will have to answer people of Punjab that why did they boycott the whole budget session of assembly on flimsy grounds. Was not it the duty of the Congress party as a principal opposition party to express its views on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address and whether it was not their responsibility to bring the lapses, if any in the budget proposals on the floor of the HouseIJ” asked Cheema.
Cheema further said that people of the State were wise enough to understand that it has become a habit on the part of the Congress to run away from its responsibility and later submit false complaints to cover up their failures.