Accompanied by BJP MLAs Ashwani Sharma and Jangi Lal Mahajan and several former MLAs besides party cadre and workers, Jakhar led a dharna of the party outside the Vidhan Sabha. He said the chief minister was deliberately misleading Punjab’s farmers over the MSP issue.
The Congress members entered the well of the House and raised slogans against the central and state governments over their handling of the issue, forcing Purohit to cut short his address. The governor had read out only a few lines from his 35-page speech amid the uproar when he discontinued his address and declared that it may be “taken as read”.
While giving the top priority to the cultivators and describing them as “the backbone of the economy of the state”, Haryana CM Khattar also brought under the spotlight of his budgetary proposals sections such as poor, youth and women by coining a “GYAN framework”, a catch phrase.
Addressing concerns during the assembly’s question hour, Dharmani shed light on the challenges encountered by Punjab in facilitating the construction of the ropeway