Punjab Congress on Saturday said that the protest of BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu against stalling development projects in his constituency of Amritsar had underlined the main charge of the party that SAD-BJP Government is discriminating with Majha region in matter of development.
In a joint statement, MlAs of the region — O.P.Soni, Ashwani Sekhri, Charanjit Kaur Bajwa, Aruna Chaudhary, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Ramanjit Singh Sikki said that even though Sidhu had withdrawn his decision to go on fast unto death after Chief Minister gave assurance of fair dealing, the issue of discrimination with Amritsar and other Majha disricts is still alive.
“The Congress party had time and again raised the issue that SAD-BJP Government was ignoring Majha region and diverting all funds to only one Parliament constituency of Bathinda where prestige of Badal family was at stake,” the statement said. The Congress leaders said that it was unprecedented in Punjab’s political history and shameful for the ruling SAD-BJP alliance that a MP of ruling party was forced to take extreme step to seek attention of his party’s Government.