Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
Amritsar
After the re-election of Sukhbir Singh Badal as president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), delegates called for fiscal and political autonomy to all states, redressal of farmers’ woes, due regard to Punjabi language in government communication and Punjab’s inalienable right on its capital Chandigarh and other Punjabi-speaking areas.
These resolutions were passed during the general delegate house held at Teja Singh Samundri Hall today.
SAD also came down heavily against “misuse” of the name of the Shiromani Akali Dal by Congress-sponsored agents (referring to rebels).
The Resolutions
In a resolution, the party called for making the election manifestoes of parties a legally enforceable document, and demanded that the violators be punished for fraud.
The party also demanded that MSP and procurement of agricultural produce must be made “fundamental right” of farmers.
In a resolution, the party called for making the election manifestoes of parties a legally enforceable document, and demanded that the violators be punished for fraud.
The party also demanded that MSP (minimum support price) and procurement of agricultural produce must be made “fundamental right” of farmers.
Deep concern was also shown over the alleged step-motherly treatment to Punjabi language as the delegates demanded the second language status to Punjabi in the adjoining states of Punjab.
Reiterating the state’s inalienable and exclusive right over its river waters, SAD said the rivers were the “the lifeline of Punjabis in general and the farmers in particular.”
Calling for immediate release of Balwant Singh Rajoana, the party expressed deep disappointment over the confusion caused over the promised commutation of death penalty against him into life imprisonment. It urged the Centre not to “dilute or deviate from its earlier gesture of commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment.”
The house said Rajoana had already served more than the tenure of life imprisonment and he should be immediately set free. The party demanded the immediate release of all Sikh prisoners languishing in jails. In another resolution, SAD said a new probe was needed after former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s “open admission” that Army deployment would have prevented the 1984 massacre of the Sikhs and it was then Home Minister PV Narsimha Rao who refused to deploy the Army.
In a significant political resolution, the party called for the “immediate dismissal” of the Congress regime in Punjab as it had become an outpost and a “proxy regime” of gangsters.
