BARNALA: Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday lashed out at the AAP government in Punjab, alleging it has "failed" on all fronts and every section of society is "feeling cheated". The leader of opposition in the Punjab Assembly also told reporters here that due to "tardy" paddy procurement and lifting by the state government, farmers are facing hardships in mandis. Bajwa, who was accompanied by MP Amar Singh and former minister Balbir Singh Sidhu, was in Barnala to campaign for Congress nominee Kuldeep Singh Dhillon ahead of the Punjab Assembly bypolls.
Bajwa said the AAP did not fulfil any of its poll promises in the past two-and-half years. "Tell us one poll promise made to farmers, employees and women which it has fulfilled," he said. The Mann government has not yet given Rs 1,000 to women per month, which the AAP had promised ahead of the 2022 polls.
Later, Mann claimed he would give Rs 1,100 per to every woman, the Congress leader said. "Not a single penny has been paid to women yet. Every section is feeling cheated.
They (AAP) failed in every situation," he charged. On the issue of paddy procurement, Bajwa said farmers are being "looted" in mandis and being forced to accept a cut of Rs 300 per quintal. "CM Mann did not bother to visit any grain market in the state to take stock of the situation," he said.
It was the responsibility of the chief minister to meet the prime minister and the food minister to take up the issue of "tardy" paddy lifting, he said. He als.