Chandigarh,; Aam aadmi Party Punjab’s General and Secretary and Chairman Punjab Mandi Board, Harchand Singh Barsat, strongly criticized the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s for presenting the budget that blatantly ignores Punjab. He stated that this budget has been issued to appease BJP’s allied parties and safeguard the Lame Central government. The Central government has completely ignored Punjab in this budget, whereas additional financial packages have been granted states like Bihar and Andhra Pradesh to appease them. Being a border state, Punjab continues to suffer from the international level drugs, yet the Modi government has not provided any special package for Punjab. Last year, Punjab had to bear the brunt of floods, yet the Central government did not extend any special package to Punjab. He criticized the Modi government, saying that the budget has shown biased behaviour towards the people of Punjab.
He said that Punjab is an important sector for agriculture, but still the central government has not given any special package for the agriculture sector and farmers. He said that the budget has also failed to provide MSP guarantee to farmers, which will increase disappointment among farmers. Earlier, the central government had stopped funds of about Rs 10,000 crore of Punjab. He said that Center Government has also reduced the budget of defence, which shows the anti-national thinking of the Modi government.
With this, the central government has also been told about taking loans, which shows that the central government does not have any kind of planning for the development of the country. The central government has already become indebted, and taking more debt will be disastrous for the country.
Harchand Singh Barsat, while targeting Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu, said that Ravneet Bittu should tell the people of Punjab what he has brought from the Central Government for food processing and what is his planning for the development of Punjab. He said that in fact Ravneet Bittu and Sunil Jakhar have made it easy for the BJP to destroy the economic resources of Punjab. While both of them, being Punjabis, should raise their voice for the better future of Punjab. General Secretary of AAP Punjab and Chairman of Punjab Mandi Board said that the people of Punjab will never forgive the BJP leaders for their anti-Punjab behavior.
