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Manpreet Badal draws flak for refusing winter uniforms to school children, SAD demands his resignation

Chandigarh, Jan 4 (UNI) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded immediate resignation of Finance Minister Manpreet Badal for mismanaging state finances to such an extent that the Congress government had failed to release Rs 35 lakh for purchase of winter uniforms for school children in Punjab.
In a statement here, SAD spokesman Pawan Kumar Tinu said Manpreet Badal should also apologise to the parents of the poor children for the cruelty meted out to their wards by denying them winter uniforms in the biting cold. He said many school children were not attending school due to the Congress government failure to distribute uniforms to them. “Many others have fallen sick due to severe cold weather conditions”.
He said each section of society was fed up by the non-performance of Manpreet Badal but Dalits were most perturbed because he had consistently shown an anti-Dalit bias by discriminating against them. “Earlier Manpreet Badal denied post matric scheme facilities to SC students for more than one year reducing enrolment of Dalit students by one lakh in colleges in the state. This scholarship has still not been released fully. Now the finance minister has refused to clear a measly Rs 35 lakh for school children in government schools most of whom belong to scheduled caste and under privileged sections of society”.
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