chandigarhUpdated: May 30, 2020 00:38 ISTAmid growing criticism from farmer organisations and opposition parties, Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday said there is no plan to withdraw free power to farmers in the state. “Let me reassure our farmers that there is no plan to withdraw free power to agriculture in Punjab. Free power will continue!” he tweeted. CM’S NERVOUS DENIAL A SIGN OF PANIC: SUKHBIRSAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal has described the CM’s denial of the government’s move to withdraw free power facility to farmers as ‘the desperate and nervous response of a CM who has been caught in the act’. We will not let him scrap free power through the back-door’.

Source: Hindustan Times May 29, 2020 19:08 UTC