SAD DISCUSSES SIKH ISSUES WITH PM

SAD delegation also thanked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Centre’s decision to release Rs 800 crore for Punjab’s cane growers out of a total of Rs 8,000 crore for the entire country.

This comes as a huge relief to the beleaguered peasantry in the state, the delegation told the PM.

The party urged the PM to expedite the implementation of Swaminathan report by which the farmers would be ensured of a profit margin of 50 percent over and above the costs incurred by them.

The delegation also urged the Prime Minister to ensure that all Sikh, who have been languishing in jails even after completing their sentence, in many cases lasting 20 years, should be immediately released. Keeping them in custody after the expiry of their sentence is both illegal and immoral, they said.

The Prime Minister was also requested to take up with his counterpart in Pakistan the issue of a corridor of access from Dera Baba Nanak to Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan, the birth place of Guru Nanak Dev which would be a befitting tribute to the great Guru during his 550th birth anniversary.