Punjab Congress on Wednesday accused the ruling SAD-BJP Government for intentionally avoiding the development of religious place Sri Chamkaur Sahib for the last nine years.
“The so-called panthic party did not even bother to invest a single penny for the betterment of basic infrastructure of the constituency which has very important religious history,” said Congress legislature Party (ClP) leader and local MlA Charanjit Singh Channi while addressing a dharna at Morinda Chamkaur Sahib road.
He said that the SAD-BJP diverted all development funds to Malwa belt, particularly in those constituencies from where the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and the daughter-in-law of the Chief Minister fight elections.
“There has been a step-motherly treatment with Sri Chamkaur Sahib just because it is being represented by a Congress MlA and that too from Dalit community. This clearly proves the anti-Dalit and the anti-people mindset of the Badals,” he said.
Channi blocked the traffic on the road for six hours along with hundreds of supporters and appealed to the people to out rightly reject the SAD-BJP in the coming Vidhan Sabha elections.
He further said that the road network is in most pathetic state in the constituency. “Theme park, started by Capt Amarinder Singh government, was stopped by this SAD-BJP government and only after my intervention, the work is started again by this government just two months back, there are no new government schools, no new hospitals,” he said.
Channi promised the people of the constituency that after coming to power in 2017, the development of the constituency will be done on war footing. “There will be no stone left unturned and the basic infrastructure will be given uplift. Sri Chamkaur Sahib will be made a model constituency, which will have all the basic amenities and the required infrastructure,” he declared.