Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
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Khadoor Sahib MP Jasbir Singh Dimpa accused the Akali Dal of deserting the Anandpur Sahib resolution by supporting the NDA government in the abolition of Article 370.
Addressing a gathering in this historic town in Amritsar district on the occasion of Rakhar Punia, he said it contradicted the SAD’s stance that it was a leading regional party and was in favour of more powers to states.
Cooperative and Jail minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa announced that the government would not spare those behind the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and drug mafia. Health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu announced that health insurance of Rs 5 lakh each would be offered to 40 lakh families from August 20. For this, 400 government and private hospitals have been listed.
Meanwhile, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal said no community could understand the pain of watching a worship place being demolished better than the Sikhs. He was speaking on the demolition of Guru Ravidas Temple in Delhi, while addressing a rally here.
“We have undergone the same pain at the hands of the Congress government. A SAD-BJP delegation will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi shortly to ask him to find an amicable solution to the matter,” he said.
He raised the demand for Chandigarh and separate high court for Punjab.
He said Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh could not even take out time to attend the nagar kirtan, which started from Pakistan’s Nankana Sahib, when it reached Mohali recently.
He accused him of committing an act of sacrilege by making false promises like complete loan waiver, jobs and unemployment allowance to the youth while holding a sacred gutka in his hands. Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia lashed out at Congress leaders for “playing politics on the unfortunate incidents of sacrilege”.
Addressing the rally, BJP state president Shwait Malik credited the Prime Minister for establishing the Kartarpur Corridor.
Former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur, former Cabinet minister Gulzar Singh Ranike and senior Akali leaders Virsa Singh Valtoha and Veer Singh Lopoke also addressed the gathering.
Meanwhile at AAP conference, Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann said the Congress government, which was voted to power in 2017 on the promise of ending the menace of drugs within four weeks, had failed miserably on this front.
He said due to poor governance of the state, the youth was getting hooked to drugs. Citing the problems of the farmers, farm hands, MGNREGA and unemployed youth, Mann said the state government and the BJP-led Central Government had failed to take an urgent call on these issues.Leader of Opposition Harpal Cheema alleged that the Congress had taken charge of the “mafia raj” earlier managed by the Badals.
