Reaffirming his authorities’s unravel to provide protection to Punjab’s pursuits, chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Monday hit out on the Union authorities for its “step-motherly” treatment and alleged that conspiracies had been being hatched to grab the instruct’s rightful claims.
Addressing a feature on the 77th Republic Day, Mann acknowledged Punjab continues to face “injustice and discrimination” despite its unmatched sacrifices in the freedom fight. He lamented that the instruct had been “unjustly denied” its rights, including its claim over Chandigarh as its capital, river waters, and Panjab University.
“Despite the excellent sacrifices, Punjab is being forced to wage honest, legislative, and administrative battles to rating its rights. Let me mark it very definite that Punjabis fill never bowed down, and they never will,” he acknowledged.
Mann expressed topic over changes to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), inserting forward that the inch would snatch the livelihoods of Scheduled Caste workers, women individuals, and landless households. Bringing up that Punjab has the nation’s perfect percentage of Dalit inhabitants, he acknowledged that of the 19.85 lakh households registered as MGNREGA workers in the instruct, 12.65 lakh belong to the SC community.
The chief minister targeted the Centre for withholding the Rural Building Fund (RDF) despite the constitutional demarcation of Centre-instruct rights. “The instruct authorities is struggling with in opposition to the Centre thru all honest design to make certain we secure what’s rightfully ours,” he acknowledged.
On the legislation-and-say entrance, Mann issued a stern warning to divisive forces and gangsters, asking them to desert the route of crime or face the results.
He additionally linked governance with the instruct’s heritage, asserting that the 650th Parkash Parv of Guru Ravidas would be accepted thru enormous instruct-stage programmes from February 1 to twenty.
Highlighting financial progress, the CM acknowledged that Punjab has attracted investments price ₹1.5 lakh crore since 2022, producing 5.2 lakh jobs. He introduced that the Punjab Investment Summit would be held from March 13 to 15 and confirmed that work on the clinical college in Hoshiarpur would commence rapidly.
Earlier, the executive minister inspected the Republic Day parade and took the salute from varied contingents, including the Punjab Police and NCC. He paid homage to freedom opponents and saluted the personnel of the navy for their provider to the nation.
