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Manpreet also said that the Congress was prepared for the upcoming parliamentary elections and meetings were being held to prepare a panel of names for distribution of party tickets. He outlined economic agenda for Bathinda in the coming months. The Akalis never fail in shedding crocodile tears for farmers during governments of other parties in the state or at the Centre but when the NDA government did nothing for farmers they preferred to keep quiet. BATHINDA: Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal has accused SAD president Sukhbir Badal and Harsimrat Badal of clinging on to their chairs even at the cost of misleading the Sikh community over the affairs of Takht Hazur Sahib and not raising its voice for the welfare of farmers.He said that if the Akalis were well-wishers of the community and Punjab, then they should come out of the alliance with the BJP and lodge its protest with NDA government. The farming community will never forget it”.The minister said that it would have been better if Harsimrat had resigned as Union minister at least now when only 60 days were left in the tenure of this government and join the people to raise voice on religious and economic issues concerning Sikhs and farmers..