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With just 24 hours left for the Gurdaspur bypoll, the Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday held road shows in the parliamentary constituency to woo voters and expressed confidence of winning bypoll with a historic margin. He claimed to win the Gurdaspur parliamentary with a margin of over 2 lakh votes.
Amarinder Singh claimed his government had not only implemented many of its poll promises, but had also set the ball rolling for bringing the beleaguered state economy back on track. “Be it enhancement of pensions under social welfare schemes or our promise of providing jobs, every election promise that we made is in the process of implementation,” he said. The CM said that his government was also working on a plan to implement its promise of providing smart phones to youth.
On the issue of crop loan waiver to farmers, the CM said that the state government had decided to waive off loans up to Rs two lakh for farmers with up to five acres of land and an outright relief of Rs two lakh each to other small and marginal farmers, irrespective of their loan amount. “This will benefit 10.25 lakh of the 13 lakh farming families who borrowed loans,” he said.
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The CM said that all steps were being taken to provide timely payment to farmers against their paddy crop in the ongoing procurement season. He also said that despite the financial constraints, his government had sanctioned money for projects worth Rs 750 Crore in Gurdaspur and Pathankot and work had already started.
Meanwhile, Congress candidate for Gurdaspur bypoll, Sunil Jakhar claimed that former Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Sucha Singh Langah’s rape case had hurt hard-core Sikh sentiments and demoralised SAD party workers. He claimed that allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Swaran Salaria were too of a grave nature, but he would not like to comment on them. “We are fighting the elections on a positive agenda. They would have to pay for what they have done,” he said.
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