SAD MLA and former Minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday asked the newly-appointed Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Navjot Singh Sidhu to tell Punjabis why he was patronizing the sand and liquor mafia instead of holding them responsible for the scores of deaths and open loot of the State exchequer.
Majithia, who was in Mohali to attend a function which witnessed the joining of independent councillor Nirmal Kaur and former SOI leader Simran Dhillon back into the party fold, said that the alacrity with which Sidhu had embraced the sand and liquor mafias was condemnable especially when he had supposedly taken up cudgels against them earlier.
“The mafia and those who patronized them including Madan Lal Jalalpur, Hardyal Kamboj and Gurkirat Singh Kotli are Sidhu’s biggest supporters now. The mafia has even taken on the responsibility of running the Pradesh Congress office in Chandigarh and this is why we now see Sidhu expressing gratitude to the mafia leaders from Congress stages,” he said.
DEBT WAIVER FOR LABOURERS, LANDLESS FARMERS A HOAX
On the Congress Government’s announcement to waive off loans worth Rs 590 crore under the farm debt waiver scheme for labourers and landless farmers, Majithia said that the announcement was turning out to be a hoax already.
“Even before any waiver could take place, the Government has come out with pre-conditions which would make a majority of the supposed 2.85 lakh beneficiaries ineligible for the waiver,” he claimed.
Majithia said that the Government had come out with conditions that the beneficiary must not have paid back a single rupee and other such things which are being disclosed in the fine print of the scheme. “It is nothing but a hoax which is being played out four and a half years after the Congress party formed the government in the State,” he added.