Shiromani Akali Dal will gherao the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on the opening day of the forthcoming Budget Session on March 1 “to give voice to the widespread popular resentment against the Capt Amarinder Singh’s sacrilegious act of breaking his oath of promises made to the people of Punjab ahead of the last assembly elections in Punjab”.
Besides, the party’s protest will also focus on the “back-breaking” hike in electricity bills as well as in the prices of diesel, petrol, and cooking gas as a result of excessive central and state government taxes even while the overall crude oil prices in the world market have registered a fall.
The decision to gherao the Assembly was taken during the SAD’s core committee meeting, held on Monday under the leadership of party chief Sukhbir Badal, which also condemned the “shocking insensitivity” of the Congress Government towards Dalit youth “through its brazen denial of Post Matric Scholarships to them”.