Jalandhar: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) – Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) joint candidate and SAD legislator from Banga – Dr Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi today filed his nomination papers for the Jalandhar parliamentary election and appealed to the electorate to teach a befitting lesson to all parties who were practicing divisive politics even as he asserted the SAD-BSP alliance could alone effect real change in the State.
Talking to newsmen after filing his nomination papers before the District Returning Officer, Dr Sukhwinder Sukhi said Jalandhar had suffered during both the earlier Congress and present AAP regime. “Both governments have failed to take advantage of central schemes and convert the district hospital into a medical college. The civic infrastructure is at its worst. Only yesterday I was stuck at the Gurunanakpura railway crossing for one hour”.
Asserting that all welfare schemes had come to a standstill, Dr Sukhi said “the AAP government has increased the free power units available for domestic consumption from 200 units being given by the SAD to 300 units but in the process has ended all welfare benefits being given to Punjabis”. He said lentils did not form a part of the ‘aata – daal’ scheme any longer.