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Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) main Sunil Jakhar connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) took a swipe astatine the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, saying the authorities was "acting similar an lawsuit absorption company". His remarks followed aft the Punjab authorities called a one-day peculiar league of the assembly connected December 30, 2025 against the Centre's Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, which replaces the 20-year-old MGNREGA.
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Mr. Jakhar said the AAP authorities was preparing for yet different "propaganda exercise". He said the Mann authorities has "failed" connected each beforehand and has nary achievements to count. Therefore, it keeps rolling retired caller propaganda each day". It would beryllium amended if the authorities utilized a peculiar league to sermon the "deteriorating" law-and-order concern successful the authorities and to "deliberate connected the predominant murders and extortion threats being reported astir daily".
Mann authorities misleading poor: Jakhar
Accusing the Mann authorities of misleading the poor, Mr. Jakhar said the dispensation had got forms filled retired and thumb impressions registered, portion failing to supply 100 days of employment to mediocre people. The AAP authorities is troubled since Central authorities is promising to halt "corruption" successful the MGNREGA strategy and supply 125 days of enactment alternatively of 100.
Highlighting Union Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s caller sojourn to Punjab, helium said radical from each territory highlighted “corruption” successful the MGNREGA scheme. The main curate should contented a achromatic insubstantial connected the “corruption nether this scheme" implicit the past 4 years.
During the existent fiscal year, the authorities was providing 26 days of employment connected average, whereas successful the erstwhile years, it managed conscionable 38 days of employment connected average. This "exposes" the anti-poor look of the AAP government, the play of convening peculiar sessions is lone meant to fell its shortcomings. Mr Jakhar, referring to earlier peculiar sessions of the Assemby, raised questions connected the presumption of draught instrumentality against sacrilege which got sent to a prime committee.
He besides asked astir the result of the peculiar league convened aft a complaint that crores of rupees were being offered to AAP MLAs for defection. Similarly, the authorities has been soundless connected the presumption of Punjab's cultivation policy, the authorities BJP main said.
"To flight accountability for this failure, the authorities is repeatedly calling peculiar sessions, which volition bring nary payment different than placing an further fiscal load connected the radical of Punjab," Mr. Jakhar added.
Poor families to look heat, says Punjab Minister
Punjab Cabinet Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) said the caller agrarian employment instrumentality volition severely interaction below-poverty-line families, Scheduled Caste communities, and agrarian labourers who beryllium connected the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for survival.
