Punjab expected to procure 132 lakh metric tons wheat: Chief Secretary
Punjab is expected to procure 132 lakh metric tons wheat, out of which 17.14 lakh metric tons have already been acquired, Chief Secretary Anurag Verma said on Sunday.
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘termite’ remark on Congress and said it reveals his despair as the party was losing ground in Himachal Pradesh.
Addressing a rally in Fatehpur in Kangra district, Capt Amarinder said PM Modi is running scared from one constituency to another in a desperate bid to garner support for his party’s candidates.
Reacting to Modi’s `termite’ comment, he said had that been the case, the country would have collapsed by now, instead of progressing the way it had done in the past 70 years.
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“Himachal Pradesh also would not have developed the way it had done under various Congress governments,” he said, adding Modi’s comments reflected his despair at the anti-BJP swing that had started emerging across the country.
Capt Amarinder said it was obvious that the Prime Minister had realized that the BJP was headed for an electoral rout and had pitched all his personal efforts into salvaging the situation, in the bleak hope that he would be able to befool the people.
“These last-ditch efforts were unlikely, however, to yield results as the people of the state had seen the devastation wreaked by the BJP wherever it was in power, including at the national level,” he said.
From demonetisation to GST, the Modi-led BJP’s ill-conceived decisions had brought the people to their knees and disillusioned them completely from the party.
“When demonetisation struck, people did not have money to buy even a cup of tea,” he pointed out, adding with the promised GST money yet to roll out, state governments were having a hard time carrying out any development and welfare works.
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