Captain Amarinder Singh stabbed Punjab in the back by having alliance with BJP: Charanjit Channi

Tribune News Service

Ropar, December 18

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday said Captain Amarinder Singh had stabbed Punjab in the back by having an alliance with the BJP.

He was reacting to the Punjab Lok Congress having an alliance with the saffron party.

Channi, who was here to lay the foundation stone of a bridge on Haripur nullah near Putkhali village, said the BJP introducing three controversial farm laws forced farmers to stay on roads for more than a year. “How can one go with such a party in Punjab,” he wondered.

Earlier, giving a relief to the people of nearly 40 villages, the CM laid the foundation stone of a high-level bridge on Haripur nullah and approach road up to three kilometres.

During monsoon the direct approach to Chandigarh for people of 40 villages used to be cut due to water in the seasonal nullah and the locals had to cover nearly 15 km extra. 

Channi said that the 82-metre-long and 12-metre-wide bridge costing Rs 8.24 crore would be completed n nine months. He said tenders had been allotted and the work started on the project.

Interestingly, it was for the second time that the foundation stone of the bridge was laid. In December 2016, the then local MLA Daljit Singh Cheema had laid the foundation stone.

Cheema, however, terming today’s foundation stone laying ceremony a drama said the chief minister was liable to answer why work on the project was delayed by the Congress government for five years despite the fact that the SAD-BJP government had already sanctioned Rs 6.5 crore and floated tenders for it.

He alleged that the Congress government in its first cabinet meeting had cancelled the approval of Rs 6.5 crore fund allocated for the bridge.