LUDHIANA, March 1 -- PUNJAB Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu has said that he has always stood for safeguarding the rights of Valmiki community.
He said that during his three tenures as a councillor in Municipal Corporation Ludhiana, he made several friends within the Valmiki community who have been supporting him all these years.
Ashu said that his political opponents with vested interests have been unsuccessfully trying hard to malign his image for the last several months. "Such people have been falling flat each time they try to do so because residents of Ludhiana know me personally. And it is out of sheer desperation now that they are trying to make issues out of non-issues by making baseless clai...