Summary:
Chandigarh, Oct 22 (PTI) AAP leader Raghav Chadha alleged on Friday that Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi was indulging in just photo opportunity and that his government has failed to fulfil the promise of compensating the farmers whose cotton crop was destroyed due to pink bollworm infestation.
Cotton crop on more than one lakh hectare land has been destroyed due to the pest attack, Chadha, who is the Aam Aadmi Party"s Punjab co-incharge, told a news conference here.
Chadha said that Channi had nearly a month ago met the affected farmers in Bathinda region and promised them that the state government would compensate them for the huge damage caused to the cotton crop due to the pest attack.
The chief minister did not honour his promise to compensate even those farmers with whom he got pictures clicked, which were later used by the government for publicity purposes across the state to give an impression that the present dispensation was farmer-friendly, the AAP leader alleged.
During the conference, Chadha repeatedly referred to Channi as a “dramebaaz chief minister” who only likes the camera glare and the limelight without delivering on ground.
"During his visit, he told farmers at Kartar Singh Wala village that the government will compensate those who suffered crop losses on account of the pest attack, but a month has passed now, no farmer has got compensation,” he claimed.