Jakhar slams Ranike on Shagun scheme
Wednesday, 30/07/2014
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CHANDIGARH: Congress Legislature Party leader Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday slammed minister for welfare of scheduled castes and backward classes Gulzar Singh Ranike for “not keeping” his July 9 promise to release Rs 26.39 crore as Shagun to 17,594 scheduled caste girls that was due up to May 2014.
Jakhar said Congress MLAs had on June 23 staged a dharna at chief minister Parkash Singh Badal’s residence and submitted a memorandum to press certain demands, which included release of money under the Shagun scheme. This forced Ranike to issue a statement that Rs 26.39 crore had been released.
Ranike had also said that he had issued instructions to disburse Shagun of Rs 15,000 each directly into the bank account of the beneficiaries before the marriage. Jakhar said the minister had made a false statement to avert a face-off in the assembly. The minister thus played a cruel joke on the beneficiaries, who had been trying hard to avail the Shagun scheme, he added.