NEW DELHI: The Assembly continued the debate on the food situation, Sir Shotu Ram, Punjab Minister, sat in the distinguished visitors gallery and listened apparently unmoved to charge of hoarding made by Mr. Jamnadas Mehta against the Punjab zamindars. ...

Mr. Jamnadas Mehta charged the Government with neglect and complacency and called upon the Indian members to get out if they could not do better than they had done in the past. In the face of the terrible reality those Indian members had no right to ask people to have consideration for Government’s difficulties. But he was prepared to absolve even that Government from a deliberate policy of starvation but the hoarders and profiteers zamindars and capitalists were deliberately robbing and fleecing and starving their own countrymen. Punjab, he declared, starved Bengal.

(Cries of No, No, from Sir Jogendra Singh and Sardar Mangal Singh.)

Sir Edward Benthall: May I inform the Hon. Member all that wheat is in Bengal. — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2018

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