Chandigarh, March 10 -- The debate on the budget, presented by finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Sunday, saw heated exchanges between the opposition and the ruling benches at the Punjab Vidhan Sabha here on Monday.

Leading the charge from the opposition, Congress MLA Pargat Singh termed the budget as jugglery of figures and said that fulfilling the most important guarantee made by AAP regarding providing Rs.1,000 to women of the state with just few months left for the assembly polls itself showed the government's intent to garner votes of women.

"Most of the guarantees that the Bhagwant Mann-led state government claimed to have fulfilled have turned out to be a bundle of lies. The AAP guarantee made before the 2022 assembly polls ...