Tribune News Service
jalandhar/Amritsar, Oct 16
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said CM Charanjit Singh Channi was misguiding homeless people of Scheduled Castes in the guise of giving them five marla plots. He said it was similar to the employment cards’ fraud.
state leaders fooling residents
Just as Capt Amarinder fooled people in the name of employment under ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgar’ scheme, Channi is fooling them in the name of five-marla plots. —Manish Sisodia, Delhi deputy chief minister
Addressing mediapersons at the Circuit House in Jalandhar today, he said: “I want to tell the people of Punjab that just the way Capt Amarinder Singh fooled them in the name of employment under Ghar Ghar Rozgar scheme, Channi is befooling them in the name of five-marla plots. The project has been in place since 1961, but even today, they are giving just papers, not the land.”
The CM had on October 2 announced that a special pro-poor campaign would be launched across all villages to identify eligible beneficiaries of the five-marla plot scheme. Eyeing the vote bank of the reserved categories in the forthcoming Assembly election, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia today visited two famous sites associated with the Valmiki community.
Earlier during the day, he visited Valmiki Temple in the Ramtirath area on the outskirts of Amritsar. The place is believed to be the ancient hermitage of Valmiki where he had given refuge to Sita and had composed the Ramayana. After a brief stopover, Sisodia went to Jalandhar’s Valmiki Ashram.
Sisodia, flanked by AAP leader and Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema and Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, said he prayed for the formation of the AAP government in Punjab at the shrine, where he stressed that Bhagwan Valmiki had imparted education to Luv and Kush. The AAP would proceed on the path shown by Valmiki and Lord Rama, he said.
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