Sunil Jakhar has been changed by Navjot Sidhu as Punjab Congress Chief
Abohar:
Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Monday mentioned the wrangling throughout the get together’s state unit was hampering the “important course of” of taking the state authorities’s “landmark achievements” to individuals forward of the 2022 meeting elections.
He expressed concern over the get together cadre’s “incapability” to totally leverage a serious authorities choice like doubling of social safety pension.
The state authorities has just lately introduced doubling the social safety pension from Rs 750 to Rs 1,500.
His assertion got here amid the continued energy tussle between the camps of Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Talking at his native village Panjkosi right here, Jakhar mentioned the rise in pension from Rs 750 to Rs 1,500 is a serious choice by the state authorities to alleviate struggling of the needy.
He, nevertheless, mentioned that he had been involved in regards to the get together not with the ability to absolutely propagate the current important choice.
“We have to take these selections to each family so that individuals might be extra privy to these,” Jakhar mentioned interesting to the Congress management and cadre that it’s time to act unitedly to take the federal government’s achievements to individuals on the bottom in order that get together may win the following meeting elections and type the federal government within the state once more.
“It’s time we must always inform those that the federal government chosen by them has doubled their pension quantity whereas in the course of the 10 years of the Shiromani Akali Dal, the pension remained stagnant at Rs 250 and was solely elevated within the final 12 months of the Badal authorities’s tenure. The Amarinder Singh-led authorities has elevated it 3 times in 5 years from Rs 500 to 1,500,” Jakhar mentioned in an announcement.
Jakhar, who has been changed by Navjot Singh Sidhu as Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief, mentioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and get together chief Rahul Gandhi have directed them to take the state authorities’s achievements to the individuals.
“On account of lack of coordination within the get together, we’re unable to take these achievements amongst the general public,” he mentioned.
He appealed to the get together management to be united and inform individuals in regards to the get together’s achievements within the four-and-a-half years and requested them to not take pleasure in creating troubles.
He mentioned, “All of us should come collectively to battle polls unitedly.”
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