Farm economy endangered by massive power cuts: Sukhbir Singh Badal

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal said the farm economy of the State had been endangered by the Congress government with massive power cuts and insufficient canal water, threatening to devastate the paddy crop in the State. The SAD president installed the new Kharar municipal committee President – Jaspreet Kaur Longia in her chair. Party constituency in charge Ranjit Singh Gill and former MP Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra were also present on the occasion. He congratulated the new team for standing up to pressure from the Congress government despite high-handedness to ensure the formation of a SAD-led municipal committee. Also Read | ‘The Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh passes away due to post-COVID complication He also announced that once the SAD formed the next government in the State it would ensure availability of water from the Kajauli waterworks to Kharar besides constructing a civil hospital, bus stand, and stadium in the town. Also Read | WTC Final 2021: Team India wears black armbands in remembrance of Milkha Singh Sukhbir Singh Badal said even as the top Congress leadership was engaged in an internal feud with chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s chair on a rickety wicket, the farmers of the State had been left to their fate. He said farmers were barely getting four to five hours of power and that too in gaps instead of the promised eight-hour uninterrupted power supply. He said for the first time ever even canal supply had been disrupted which threatened to result in the destruction of paddy crops over vast swathes in the Malwa region of the State. Badal said even as farmers were suffering, the chief minister was busy in keeping the Gandhi family happy and had accepted the directive of Rahul Gandhi to implicate the top SAD leadership in false cases.