Chandigarh, Jan 11 (PTI) Opposition SAD today announcedthat it would launch a state wide campaign -- 'Pol Khol Lehar'-- next month to expose the "massive fraud" done by the Punjabgovernment in the name of farm debt-waiver.
The SAD will take the issue to the people through ralliesin all 117 Assembly constituencies of the state during thefirst week of February, party president Sukhbir Singh Badalsaid after a meeting of the core committee.
He also announced that a SAD delegation comprising corecommittee members will meet Punjab governor V P Singh Badnoretomorrow morning to seek his intervention to direct the stategovernment to fulfill its promises of full farm debt waiver.
"The total debt according to the Congress is Rs 90,000crore and their total waiver scheme covers less than Rs 700crore, that less than one percent of the total burden," theSAD leader claimed.
On the issue of farm debt-waiver, the SAD had earlieraccused the Congress-led state government of playing a"massive fraud" with the farming community.
It had also alleged that the Amarinder Singh dispensationwas waiving a "measly" amount of loan against the promise ofabout Rs 90,000 crore.
The delegation would also urge the governor toappointment an inquiry commission headed by a sitting judge ofthe Supreme Court to probe all incidents of sacrilege inPunjab reported during the previous SAD-BJP government andunder the present dispensation.
He said that his party had no faith in the Justice RanjitSingh Commission, which is probing the sacrilege cases. PTICHSANB.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.