DW BUREAU / chandigarh The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday said Speaker Rana K P Singh had committed grave injustice as custodian of the Vidhan Sabha by rejecting the party's request to extend the forthcoming one hour assembly session to a fourteen day session to discuss the burning issues of the State. In a statement here after meeting the Vidhan Sabha Speaker at his residence, SAD legislative wing leader Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said it was shocking that the Speaker had flatly refused to extend the assembly session despite being apprised about the urgent problems facing the State and its people. "Never before has any government in the history of the State held a one hour session in the guise of a pandemic. The SAD apprised the Speaker that other States were also holding monsoon sessions for extended periods and that the parliament would also meet shortly and that the Congress government's contention to hold a one hour session citing threat from COVID was bereft of logic." Describing the Congress government's resolve to hold a one hour session as a murder of democracy, Sharanjit Dhillon said the government had earlier also run away from holding full-fledged sessions. He said there was all the more reason to hold a session to discuss all emergent issues before the people considering the grave times. "The State is in danger of being robbed of its river waters and the SAD wants an assurance from the government that not one drop of water to flow to Haryana. We do not want a repeat of the old history when the Congress government in Punjab facilitated the construction of the SYL canal by Indira Gandhi at Kapuri village." The Legislative party leader said the party also wanted a detailed discussion on the Rs 5,600 crore revenue loss caused by the liquor mafia in the State as well as the subsequent death of 135 persons in the hooch tragedy. "We want to ask the government as to why it is going soft on the liquor mafia and why a CBI probe has not been ordered into the incident. We also want to know why the Enforcement Directorate is not being handed over case files regarding the illegal distillery busted at Ghanaur and why no action has been taken against distilleries who supplied spirit to the liquor mafia led by Congressmen. These are not only our questions but questions of Punjabis also who are shocked at the apathy of the government." Dhillon said the SAD also wanted a full-fledged debate on the sand mafia and why gunda tax was being collected by the mafia. (editor@dailyworld.in)