Sultanpur Lodhi: The leader of opposition in Punjab Partap Singh Bajwa, on Wednesday visited flood-affected areas and said that entire farmlands are under water, homes are destroyed, and thousands have been displaced Sultanpur Lodhi in Kapurthala district.
During his visit, he met villagers and farmers who have lost everything and directly called out the AAP government to protect the state from yet another devastating flood.
Speaking to the media, Bajwa said: “I saw the pain and destruction with my own eyes. Entire farmlands are under water, homes are destroyed, and thousands have been displaced. Yet, the Bhagwant Mann government is busy issuing press releases instead of delivering real relief.”
“They boasted about spending Rs 230 crore on flood prevention, desilting 4,766 km of waterways, constructing over a thousand check dams, planting bamboo saplings, and storing sandbags. But when the floods came, these measures collapsed like a house of cards. Villages are drowning, and farmers have been left helpless,” he said.
The Congress legislator also targeted Water Resources Minister Barinder Kumar Goyal, saying: “The minister claimed Rs 276 crore spent on 1,220 projects, GIS-mapped sandbags, check dams, and high-tech SCADA systems. But as I travelled today, I saw no protection, no preparedness, and no relief for the victims. These were hollow boasts made to mislead the people.”
Highlighting the scale of the crisis, Bajwa said: “Hundreds of villages in the area have farmland submerged. Seven entire villages in Pathankot and Gurdaspur have been cut off. In Kapurthala alone, 8,000 people displaced, with thousand acres of paddy destroyed. This is not just a natural disaster — it is a man-made failure due to the Mann government’s negligence.”
Bajwa reminded the media of CM Mann’s own promises.
“Bhagwant Mann once said his government would compensate even for goats and hens. Yet farmers who have lost entire crops and livestock have not received a single rupee. Special girdawaris and full compensation remain just paper announcements,” he said.
Adding a human dimension to the tragedy, Bajwa recounted: “A woman shared her pain with us and said she had to pawn her earrings just to rent a boat and rescue her family, while the government continues to sleep.”
Also read;