Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has strongly criticized AAP leaders, including CM Bhagwant Singh Mann, for ignoring farmers’ suffering during the floods. Badal said that instead of playing a blame game, the government should focus on compensation. He flagged off 250 tractor-trailers of maize silage from Dera Baba Nanak and also visited flood-hit villages in Sri Hargobindpur.
To aid relief work, SAD sent hundreds of fogging machines and dispatched 25 more silage trucks from Sri Muktsar Sahib for Patti and Khadoor Sahib constituencies. Badal assured Gurdaspur DC Dalwinderjit Singh of full support from his party.
He accused the AAP government of negligence, blaming the collapse of Madhopur barrage gates and release of water from Ranjit Sagar Dam for destroying crops across lakhs of acres. According to SAD, CM Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal are misusing Punjab’s resources while farmers wait for flood relief.
