After bicycles and utensils, the SAD-BJP government has now started pasting cyclostyled messages at the entry gates of toilets in rural areas, singing praises of the Punjab Government for providing these for the poor sections to help them live with ‘self-respect’. Five month back, the Union Ministry for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation had started the integrated low-cost sanitation scheme (ILCS) that envisaged converting dry latrines into low-cost flush latrines and construction of new toilets for economically weaker sections in urban areas. In Faridkot, about Rs 2 crore has been earmarked for the toilets. Avtar Singh Brar, former Education Minister and Congress MLA from Faridkot, said this welfare scheme was part of the 14 flagship programmes of the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre but the SAD-BJP government was trying to take credit for it. “The Chief Minister had earlier put his picture on bicycles for schoolgirls and on the utensils distributed among the poor. Now, the toilets are also being used for campaigning”, he remarked.