Chandigarh, September 23, 2017: The Shiromani Akali Dal hit out at the Finance Minister Mr. Manpreet Singh Badal for asking farmers to miss their meal once a day and said that the finance minister who has responsibility to work for their upliftment was asking them to remain empty stomach.
In a statement issued from the party head office here on Saturday, the SAD Spokesman Virsa Singh Valtoha said that it was surprising to see that instead of working for upliftment of farmers and farm labourers and help them to cope with the farm crisis was asking them to even shun their meals.
It was highly unbecoming of the FM, who was the main architect of the Congress party's poll manifesto, to have made such a suggestion instead of providing relief to the distressed farming community, he alleged.
The FM even failed in providing the employees their salaries, facilities for the unprivileged which the earlier SAD-BJP government had launched including the Atta Dal scheme, Shagun Scheme and other social beneficiary schemes, added Valtoha.