category Regional, jalandhar , , tags Regional, jalandhar , , DW BUREAU Jalandhar Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday listed his government s achievements in the past year as he held his first poll rally to canvass for AAP candidate Sushil Rinku ahead of the upcoming bypoll for the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat. The bypoll in Jalandhar will be held on May 10. The votes will be counted on May 13. During the rally, the Congress former Kartarpur MLA Surinder Singh Chaudahry joined the AAP. Chaudhary is the nephew of Congress MP Santokh Chaudhary, whose death in January necessitated the bypoll. Chaudhary died at 76 after suffering a cardiac arrest during the party s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jalandhar. Addressing the rally in Kartarpur, Mann announced that compensation to farmers for crop losses due to rough weather would be given from Wednesday (April 13). Mann said his government stood by the farmers whose crops suffered damage due to the inclement weather and added that he would hand over the compensation cheques in Abohar on the day of Baisakhi. Losses that farmers are facing today due to untimely rain and hailstorm will be compensated by this government, he added. Referring to the decisions taken by his dispensation, Mann said the state government had given 28,000 jobs to youths, regularised temporary employees and also provided uninterrupted power supply to the farmers. Additionally, he said more than 80 per cent of households received zero electricity bills. He also claimed that for the first time in the history of Punjab, the government released the complete annual subsidy of Rs 20,200 crore to the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited. Mann also accused the opposition parties of trying to defame the AAP dispensation as they could not digest the drubbing in the 2022 assembly polls. (editor dailyworld.in)