Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday slammed the Badals over the issue of farm debt waiver, claiming that the previous SAD-BJP government had failed in settling a single rupee of farmers’ loan despite bringing an act — the Punjab Settlement of Agricultural Indebtedness Act, 2016 — for the same.
“Positions lying vacant in most of debt settlement forums at district level were not filled.
Nothing had happened during the previous regime. It showed their intent and lack of interest in protecting farmers,” he said.
“They spent Rs 1.50 crore on advertisement of the settlement of debt. But not even a single rupee was settled,” he claimed.