Even as the Punjab elections are over now and the new Congress government has taken over, the verbal war between Badals and Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Captain Amarinder Singh is still on.

Just after Amarinder indicated towards debt waiver after meeting Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi recently, former Punajb CM Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Badal alleged that the Punjab CM had backtracked on his farm lean waiver promise. Reacting to this on Friday, Captain Amarinder said the Badal father-son duo seem to be suffering from selective 'hearing and amnesia'. In a statement issued here, the CM said the Badals had a propensity for misleading the people with their 'senseless and baseless' statements against their political rivals. He criticised their latest statements contesting government’s commitment to farm debt waiver were not only unfounded, but also contradictory to established facts that were in the public domain.

The CM said his government had initiated a time bound process of waiver of their loans in less than 10 days of taking over the state’s reins. "Our government had initiated a series of people-oriented measures to bring about transparency and governance in the systems, which the Badals had transformed into a den of corruption and mafias," said CM.

Referring to his meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue, the CM pointed out this was not the first time he had met PM to demand waiver of farm loans. He pointed out that he had been part of the delegation led by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi that met the PM before the Assembly elections to seek relief for the distressed farmers in the country. "Badals, with their selective memory, had conveniently forgotten about this fact while accusing him of cheating the farmers on the debt waiver issue", Captain Amarinder added.

The CM also said that while his government was totally committed to fulfill its promise on waiver of all farm loans in Punjab, he would be happy if the central government also concurrently takes urgent steps to alleviate the sufferings of the debt-ridden farmers around the country.

"Our party was cognizant of the plight of farmers in all parts of the country and was striving to resolve their problems with the support of the central government, led by PM. In contrast, the Badals, who were totally unmindful of the problems facing the farmers of their own state, could not possibly be expected to show any concern for farmers in other states", he added.