Shaurya Sharma
Fatehgarh Sahib. May.12, 2020: A delegation of SAD(B) led by district President Jathedar Swarn Singh Chanarthal comprising halka incharges of all the three Constituencies falling in the district Didar Singh Bhatti halka incharge for Fatehgarh Sahib, Darbara Singh Guru incharge Bassi Pathana and Gurpreet Singh Raju Khanna incharge Amloh today submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Amrit Kaur Gill to be forwarded to CM alleging that the discrimination and delay is being made while distributing ration to the needy in the hour of crisis due to political interference.
They mentioned in the memorandum that as COVID is spreading fastly and it has affected every section of society and long lock down has worstly affected the poor and lower middle class and they are facing various hardships even of meeting both their ends. So it becomes the duty of the government to help this section of society and provide them all sort of facilities.
While interacting with media the leaders alleged that due to political interference discrimination is being made in the distribution of the ration, the blue cards issued by the former Badal government of the poor have been cancelled on political ground and the ration is being distributed to favourities. They said that PM Narinder Modi started “ PM Kalyan Anaj Yojna” to provide food to the poor at their door steps and sent 21.2 Lakh Quintal wheat worth Rs. 594 Crore and “ Dal” allotted to Punjab government to be distributed among 1.41 Crore beneficiaries in State, but unfortunately from the last one month the wheat has not yet been distributed and the needy are suffering.
Raju Khanna, Darbara Singh Guru and Didar Singh Bhatti alleged that the Congress leaders are making discrimination and adopting picks and choose policy and distributing ration to their favourites. They said in this hour of crisis no one should play dirty politics rather should work for the needy on humanitarian ground.
DC assured the delegation that there will be no discrimination while distributing ration and she will enquire the allegation and assured to speed up the distribution of wheat sent by the government.