PATRAN, Jan 29: Punjab Finance and Planning Minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh here today asked Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Commitee (SGPC) President Gurcharan Singh Tohra not to criticise policies of the Akali Dal-Bhartiya Janata Party government in public, as such criticism would help only the Congress.Talking to mediapersons before addressing a meeting of party workers called by the circle Akali Jatha to mobilise partymen for the February 12 rally at Patiala, he said Tohra was a senior leader of the party and as he was a member of the political affairs committee, the supreme decision making body of the party, he was party to all important decision taken at the PAC. He said senior partymen should raise such issues only at suitable party forums.Justifying the action of 131 SGPC members in petitioning the Akal Takht for a review of the hukumnama, he said the SGPC was a democratically elected body. A total of 175 members had contested and won on Akali Dal ticket and were fully loyal to the party.Singh said the Congress had been raising non-issues just to hide its rout in the recently-held polls. He said the new budget would have a "new, entirely non-conventional approach dedicated to infrastructural development."Those who addressed the meeting included local legislator Gurdev Singh Sidhu, Patiala district Akali Jatha president Rajinder Singh Tohra, SGPC member Joginder Singh Panjrath, former MP Charanjit Singh Walia and former chairman of the local market committee Baljinder Singh Hariau, besides block presidents of the Akali circle Paramjit Singh and Jaspal Singh.Kharar: Stressing the need for providing good education to girl students in rural areas, Punjab Finance and Planning Minister Capt. Kanwaljit Singh said this would root out backwardness amongst women that comes from illiteracy.He was addressing the concluding function of the 27th annual sports meet of Baba Jhujhar Singh and Fateh Singh Khalsa Girls College at Morinda, near here, yesterday evening. Kanwaljit said that necessary equipment would be provided to the college for starting computer education in the college from the next academic session. He also announced a grant of Rs 1 lakh for the development of the college during the current financial year. College principal Tejinder Kaur Bhall read out the annual report of the college.
