BJP delegation led by Sunil Jakhar meets Punjab Governor; raises floods issue

Published on: 28 Jul 2023 at 10:07 AM

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The Fact News Service

Chandigarh, July 28

A delegation of senior BJP leaders led by BJP Punjab State President Sunil Jakhar met Punjab Governor Banwari lal Purohit at his residence on Thursday and handed over a demand letter to the Governor giving detailed information about the flood situation in almost all the districts of Punjab and the problems being faced by the people due to the neglect of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

On this occasion Sunil Jakhar along with Kewal Singh Dhillon, Lakhwinder Kaur Garcha, Parminder Brar, Gurpreet Singh Kangad, Arvind Khanna, Balbir Sidhu, Amanjot Kaur Ramuwalia, Jaindra Kaur, Dr. Subhash Sharma, Rakesh Rathore, Raj Kumar Verka etc. were included in the delegation.

The letter of demand submitted by Sunil Jakhar to the Governor is attached below:

Respected Governor Shri Banwarilal Purohit Ji.

I am writing to you to express my deep anguish and pain at the hapless situation of crores of Punjabis who have been left to fend for themselves by this grossly inept, incompetent and callous regime while their houses and fields are inundated by flood waters. The misery and hardship being endured by Punjabis is partly of this government’s own making, which is still in deep slumber and refuses to learn any lesson for plunging the state into one mess to another.

The fact that as per latest reports, majority of districts of state are still badly affected by floods lays bare any claim of planning on Sh. Bhagwant Mann led dispensation. That the Chief Minister did not even care to hold a customary flood preparation review meeting of his senior officers – a Standard Operating Procedure done well before the onset of Monsoon every year – and his administration kept itself completely insulated from all alerts being issued by the Indian Meterological Department (IMD) amounts to abdication of its responsibility towards people of Punjab.