Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said that the Amarinder Singh government is taking credit of the work done by the previous Parkash Singh Badal government.

Addressing a press conference, Badal said from the each and every achievement listed out in the Governor’s Address on Tuesday, during the opening day of the on-going budget session of the Assembly, was authored by the previous SAD-BJP government.

“I am thankful to the chief minister because this year’s Governor’s address is a forceful endorsement of the policies, programmes, decisions and achievements of the SAD-BJP government during the last ten years from 2007-17,” he said.

Asking the Congress government to list one achievement listed in the document which had not been implemented by Badal government, the SAD president said the Address seemed to have got two things wrong – the dates and the name of the chief minister, which was Parkash Singh Badal and not Amarinder Singh.

Sukhbir also castigated the Address for being a visionless document which did not list even one action plan for the future. “Besides this the Governor’s Address has virtually abdicated Punjab’s claim on important issues including justice for 1984 victims and transfer of Chandigarh and Punjabi speaking areas by omitting their reference,” he said.

The former Deputy CM said the government had tried to tout the Punjab Transparency and Accountability in Delivery in Public Services Act as an achievement whereas it had only replaced the Right to Service Act introduced by the SAD-BJP government with the new nomenclature.

He said similarly the government was trying to claim credit for successful dealing of inter-state river water disputes when it was a fact that the last assembly had passed an Act returning land acquired for Satluj Yamuna Link (SYL) canal back to farmers under Badal’s leadership.

The SAD leader said similarly the Shahpur Kandi project was being touted as a Congress achievement when the same was started by the SAD-BJP government.

“The Congress government has done nothing on the irrigation front but has listed this in the Address despite the fact that the SAD-BJP government spent Rs 3,070 Crore on this head during its tenure,” he said.

He said the government had also tried to take credit for the Pardhan Mantri Krishi Sanchai Yojna despite the fact that the scheme was launched by PM Shri Narendra Modi during SAD-BJP government.