AAP leader lashes out at state govt

Tribune News Service

Fatehgarh Sahib, May 21

Due to the lackadaisical approach of the state government, people are not getting old-age pension and other benefits and if the state government failed to initiate any action in this regard, the AAP would be forced to launch a state-wide protest.

AAP leader advocate Lakhvir Singh Rai stated this to the media after holding a meeting of party workers here today.

Rai said the meeting was convened to discuss the problems being faced by the people. They had evolved a strategy to deal with the situation.

Lashing out at Capt Amarinder Singh Government, Rai said the Congress had made various promises to the people during the Assembly elections, but it was proving to be a failure on every front.

He said poor senior residents were waiting for old-age pension and were facing problems in making both ends meet. The closure of the Atta-Dal scheme had also created problems for the people and there were many such schemes for the benefit of the people but they were not getting any facilities.

He said the government was deliberately delaying the auctioning of sand mines forcing the people to buy the sand at much higher rates or in black.

He urged the state government to release old-age pension scheme and provide other benefits t the people. He threatened that if the state government failed to provide benefits under the people-friendly scheme, his party would be forced to launch a state-wide protest.

Delay in old-age pension

AAP leader Lakhvir Singh Rai said poor senior residents were waiting for old-age pension and were facing problems in making both ends meet. The closure of the Atta-Dal scheme had also created problems for the people and there were many such schemes for the benefit of the people but they were not getting any facilities.