tyle="text-align: justify;">Punjab: Speaking to people in Kotkapura Assembly segment during ‘Halke vich Captain’ (Captain in constituency) programme, the PCC chief also said hundreds of families in the Malwa region have been devastated by the disease due to loss of life and huge expenses incurred on its treatment and we are willing to to find a long-term solution to this problem.

“It is a double whammy for the families as on the one hand they lose their near and dear ones and on the other hand they are financially broke as cancer treatment is very expensive,” he said, adding that treatment of cancer patients will be the state’s responsibility.

He also targeted the Badal government on the “financial mismanagement” it showed and on the question of  corruption by the family of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, he said, he will ensure a time bound inquiry and probe so the corrupts are punished.

When asked about how the government will be able to “pay the debts of farmers”, a promise which he made in a  similar programme in Bhatinda, he said, “I know how to generate resources. I have done it in the past,”  adding that the party had taken all aspects into consideration, including financial condition of the state, before announcing the waiver of loans.