SAD terms govt’s job fairs bogus: ‘Taking undue credit’
LEHRAGAGA (SANGRUR) : Terming the job fair organised by the Punjab government bogus, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday asked chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to publish a list of youth who were given jobs during the last one year.
Addressing a “Pol Khol” rally at Lehragaga in Sangrur district, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said the CM was claiming that 1.6 lakh youth had been given jobs in the last one year, whereas the truth is that the government has failed to provide employment to the youth and was now taking credit for even campus placements.
The government has taken credit by distributing appointment letters to youth who have already been given employment by private firms, he alleged. “The Akali Dal will nail this lie in the forthcoming budget session of the Punjab assembly and ask the government to provide the complete list of youth, along with their addresses and emoluments, who have been given jobs,” he said.
Sukhbir also cornered the government over its “failure” to curb drug problem, saying: “Before assembly elections last year, it was projected that 70% Punjabi youth was drug addicts. Now, I want to ask Amarinder what steps have his government
In the forthcoming budget session of the assembly, we will ask the government to provide the complete list of youth, with addresses and emoluments, given jobs. SUKHBIR SINGH BADAL, SAD president and former deputy CM
taken to control the flow of drugs in the state and the seizures made so far.”
Meanwhile, speaking about the foundation stones laid by the CM in Ludhiana on Sunday, SAD spokesman Maheshinder Singh Grewal said in a release that it did not behove of the chief minister to try to take credit for projects which had been initiated by the previous SAD-BJP government.
The SAD leader said the Congress government should not discriminate against the people of Ludhiana and stall development works only because they had been initiated by the erstwhile SAD-BJP government.
“The government should tell the people why it ignored Ludhiana in this manner and immediately release grants to start all stalled development works,” he added.