SAD’s Majithia seeks clearance of cane dues from Punjab authorities, personal sugar mills

By PTI

PHAGWARA: Former Punjab minister and senior Akali chief Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday demanded clearance of dues of sugarcane growers by the state authorities in addition to personal sugar mills.

He additionally demanded a rise within the price of sugarcane in Punjab on the strains of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.

Majithia, who was not too long ago launched from the Patiala jail after he was granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High courtroom in a medicine case, stated it was delivered to his discover that farmers had been protesting right here and demanding their cane dues of Rs 72 crore pending in direction of an area sugar mill right here.

He stated that farmers should get their rights.

Earlier, Majithia was given a convincing welcome by Akali staff on the Bhullarai underpass of Mehli-Mehtan Phagwara bypass.

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief was on his technique to the Golden Temple in Amritsar the place he’ll supply prayers.

Speaking to reporters, Majithia took a dig at former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, saying he created “history” by shedding each the seats — Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur– he had contested through the February state meeting polls.

It is for the primary time {that a} sitting chief minister misplaced each the seats, he stated.

Accusing Channi of following vindictive politics and framing him in a cooked-up drug case, Majithia requested the previous chief minister as to what had he acquired from this “politics of hatred and vendetta”.

“Channi Sahib has fled to the US and not returned yet,” stated Majithia.

Without naming former MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu, Majithia stated the opposite one that labored towards him day in and day trip was his neighbour within the Patiala jail.

“I pray for him also as when a political leader goes to jail, his family suffers a lot,” he stated.

On his approach, Majithia additionally visited the Bhagat Singh memorial at Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr.

He was welcomed by the social gathering staff on his technique to Amritsar.

“Tomorrow I will pay obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar,” he stated.

He attacked the AAP authorities, accusing it of taking part in fraud with individuals and stated its defeat within the Sangrur bypoll inside three months of its coming to energy had “exposed its real face”.

To a query on his social gathering MLA from Dakha, Majithia stated legislator Manpreet Singh Ayali was like his brother.

“We are a family and will remain a family,” he stated.

Ayali had sought the implementation of the suggestions of the Iqbal Singh Jhundan panel fashioned to analyse the explanations for the social gathering’s humiliating defeat within the Punjab meeting polls.

The SAD received simply three seats within the 117-member Punjab Assembly.

PHAGWARA: Former Punjab minister and senior Akali chief Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday demanded clearance of dues of sugarcane growers by the state authorities in addition to personal sugar mills.

He additionally demanded a rise within the price of sugarcane in Punjab on the strains of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.

Majithia, who was not too long ago launched from the Patiala jail after he was granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High courtroom in a medicine case, stated it was delivered to his discover that farmers had been protesting right here and demanding their cane dues of Rs 72 crore pending in direction of an area sugar mill right here.

He stated that farmers should get their rights.

Earlier, Majithia was given a convincing welcome by Akali staff on the Bhullarai underpass of Mehli-Mehtan Phagwara bypass.

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief was on his technique to the Golden Temple in Amritsar the place he’ll supply prayers.

Speaking to reporters, Majithia took a dig at former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, saying he created “history” by shedding each the seats — Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur– he had contested through the February state meeting polls.

It is for the primary time {that a} sitting chief minister misplaced each the seats, he stated.

Accusing Channi of following vindictive politics and framing him in a cooked-up drug case, Majithia requested the previous chief minister as to what had he acquired from this “politics of hatred and vendetta”.

“Channi Sahib has fled to the US and not returned yet,” stated Majithia.

Without naming former MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu, Majithia stated the opposite one that labored towards him day in and day trip was his neighbour within the Patiala jail.

“I pray for him also as when a political leader goes to jail, his family suffers a lot,” he stated.

On his approach, Majithia additionally visited the Bhagat Singh memorial at Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr.

He was welcomed by the social gathering staff on his technique to Amritsar.

“Tomorrow I will pay obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar,” he stated.

He attacked the AAP authorities, accusing it of taking part in fraud with individuals and stated its defeat within the Sangrur bypoll inside three months of its coming to energy had “exposed its real face”.

To a query on his social gathering MLA from Dakha, Majithia stated legislator Manpreet Singh Ayali was like his brother.

“We are a family and will remain a family,” he stated.

Ayali had sought the implementation of the suggestions of the Iqbal Singh Jhundan panel fashioned to analyse the explanations for the social gathering’s humiliating defeat within the Punjab meeting polls.

The SAD received simply three seats within the 117-member Punjab Assembly.