Hoshiarpur- Addressing a press conference today, Punjab Cabinet Minister Dr. Ravjot Singh said that in the year 2022, the people of Punjab gave a big fatwa to the Aam Aadmi Party and formed the government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann. He said that since then, big decisions have been taken continuously to protect the interests of every section.
During this press conference held in the presence of Deputy Speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha, MLA Brahm Shankar Jimpa and MLA Karambir Singh Ghuman, Dr. Ravjot Singh said that the Punjab government has worked for the interests of farmers, laborers, poor and common man, but on the contrary, the BJP government at the center has always adopted a discriminatory attitude towards Punjab.
Be it the issue of farmers or any other issue, the central government is targeting Punjab on some pretext or the other. He said that now the Center has cut the ration cards of about 8 lakh families of Punjab, i.e. about 32 lakh beneficiaries, which highlights the anti-poor thinking.
Cabinet Minister Dr. Ravjot Singh said that Punjab is geographically only 1.5 percent of India, but the people of Punjab have taken care of the country in every hour of crisis. Be it a war situation across the border or the question of food grain supply, Punjab has always been at the forefront.
Punjab produces 40 percent of the country's wheat and 26 percent of rice, despite this, the Central Government is continuously discriminating against Punjab. The Cabinet Minister said that the Punjab Government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann is committed to protecting the rights of every common man and farmers and this conspiracy of the Center will not be allowed to succeed.
He said that the entire country is seeing to what extent the BJP government can fall. Sharing region-wise information, Dr. Ravjot Singh said that ration cards of about 7 lakh beneficiaries are being cut in Majha region of Punjab, about 5.50 lakh in Doaba region and about 20 lakh in Malwa region. If we talk about Hoshiarpur district, then more than 1.38 lakh poor beneficiaries are suffering the consequences.