Both Cong and AAP playing fixed match with BJP led central govt:  Parambans Singh Romana

Raikot: The Youth Akali Dal (YAD) today said both the Congress as well as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was playing a fixed match with the BJP led central government to the detriment of the farming community as well as the interests of Punjab.
Addressing a massive Youth Mangda Jawaab rally here, YAD President Parambans Singh Romana said the Congress party had facilitated passage of the three Agricultural Bills in parliament by staging a walkout instead of voting against them. “Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh was part of the committee of chief ministers which finalized the three Agricultural Ordinances which were later turned into Acts. Similarly AAP Convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was the first to notify the laws in Delhi even as Punjab AAP Convener Bhagwant Mann gave his assent to the Essential Commodities Amendment Act in the meeting of the Standing Committee on Food and Consumer Affairs”. He also asked Kejriwal not to try to befool the youth of Punjab with offers of twenty lakh jobs asserting that an RTI in Delhi had revealed the AAP government had provided 214 jobs to youth in the last three years.

Mr Parambans Romana, who commended YAD rural district president Prabhjot Dhaliwal for organizing a huge rally, also took on the Congress government for backstabbing the youth by reneging on each and every promise made to them in 2017. He said chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh signed an affidavit stating that once the Congress party formed the government in the State he would provide one job per family to youth between the age of 18 to 35 years and till such time the job was not given the youth would be eligible for an unemployment allowance of Rs 2,500 per month. “If we take this promise into consideration each youth in Punjab is owed Rs 1.25 lakh till now”.

Asserting that the Congress party had spared none, the YAD President said even the martyrs had been insulted with the schemes incorporated under the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Rozgar Sirjan Yojna also being given a go by. He said that the Congress party had promised to provide easy loans for purchase of four wheelers to the youth under Apni Gaddi Apna Rozgar scheme. “Similarly a promise was made to provide 25000 tractors per year to youth under Hara tractor scheme and an assistance of Rs. 5 lakh on easy installments for youth to start their own ventures under Yaari Enterprises scheme”. He said these schemes had been incorporated under the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sirjan Yojna.

Those present on the occasion included Manpreet Singh Ayali, Gurcharan Singh Grewal, Balwinder Singh Sandhu, Sarabjot Singh Saabi, Gurdeep Gosha and Tanvir Dhaliwal.