Congress should look into its own shortcomings: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann

PATHANKOT: Chief minister Bhagwant Mann advised Congress to look into its own shortcomings before passing alleged insidious remarks on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
BJP doesn’t have a panacea for all ills, he added.
While talking to media persons here after inspecting the grain markets, Bhagwant Mann said that before raising question marks over the expenses made by the state government to showcase Punjab in other states, the Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa must peep into their conscience and look at what their party had been doing in other states.He asked the Leader of Opposition Bajwa to refrain from such double standards.
“The state government has full right to highlight its achievements in other states to attract more investments in the state,” he justified doing so.
About BJP, he said that mere joining of the BJP didn’t give a clean chit to any individual. “Former Congress minister Sunder Sham Arora had joined BJP in hope of getting safe haven for his misdeeds of plundering the wealth of state but he is now behind the bar for his sins and ironically a machine for counting notes has been recovered from his home,” he alleged .
Claiming that the state government was committed to ensure exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of Sidhu Moose Wala murderers, he said that majority of conspirators, planners, and executors of this heinous crime have been already nabbed. “We have also requested the Center government to issue Red corner notice for the culprits who have took shelter on foreign lands,” he informed.
About the ongoing procurement, he informed that 110 Lakh Metric Ton (LMT) paddy has been procured so far adding that the entire process of procurement and lifting would be completed within a week.
“Till October 30, around 112 LMT of paddy has arrived in the state out of which nearly 110 LMT has been procured. Out of this 88 LMT has been lifted and a payment worth Rs 18,660 crore has been transferred so far to the farmers,” informed Mann.
He said he was personally monitoring the entire procurement process to ensure that farmers didn’t face any sort of inconvenience.
Mann said that zoning of different districts of state had given desired results. “This has enabled the state government to have a correct assessment about the cropping pattern of the state to save water,” he said.