Punjab Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has moved a resolution condemning the lack of response and failure of BJP-led Central Government to sanction a special financial package. It also condemned the Prime Minister’s Office for not responding to the repeated requests of Punjab Chief Minister for a meeting to brief the former about the full scale of disaster; the token relief package of Rs 1,600 crore; and calling the “Union Government” to acknowledge the gravity of the disaster and sanction a package of Rs 20,000 crore for the state.

The resolution was moved by the Water Resources Minister Barinder Goyal during a discussion on “Rehabilitation of Punjab” at the special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, that began today.

The resolution states that Punjab has been ravaged by catastrophic

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