Chandigarh, January 8, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab has blamed the government in the saddle for the acute financial crisis in the state, saying that the steps being initiated to get out of the financial mess by the Capt Amarinder Singh government were more disappointing.
In a joint statement issued from party headquarters Wednesday, state core committee chairman and MLA Principal Budh Ram, deputy leader of opposition, Bibi Sarabjit Kaur Manuke, NRI state wing president Jai Singh Singh Rouri and MLA Kulwant Singh Singh Pandori said that the Punjab government had been on ventilator, financially speaking, saying that Capt Amarinder Singh and Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, instead of salvaging the economy out of the mess, were pushing it into abysmal financial crisis.
It would have been better had the government taken on all kinds of mafias, rampant corruption from top-to-bottom corruption and plugged other leakages to bring back the state economy to the pink of health, accusing the government of buying time to save its skin by resorting to immature measures, which reflected its proclivity to mend the loopholes.
The AAP leaders said that government doctors were denied the non-practice allowances (NPA), by allowing them to do private practice, forcing the police personnel to do 24-hour duty instead of 8-hour duty, and denying them 13-month salary in lieu of that they had been receiving for decades, its hard decisions by imposing a quantum cut to the tune of 20 per cent in government departments, which would not suffice enough to salvage it from the financial crisis.
The AAP leaders said that as long as the Capt. Government did not show enough will power and honesty and continued to extend protection to sand mafia, alcohol mafia, road mafia, power mafia, cable mafia, transport mafia, market mafia, health mafia, education mafia and land mafia and end deep-rooted corruption, the state would continue to be reel under the financial.
Principal Budh Ram and Bibi Manuke demanded that the government should bring out with a ‘White Paper’ on the financial health of the state during the forthcoming Vidhan Sabha session, saying the Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh and Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal should share their concrete strategy to overcome the financial crisis with the people at large.
AAP MLAs Rouri and Pandori strongly condemned the Modi government at the centre for withholding the GST refund due to the government of Punjab, saying that both the Captain and Badal families were equally responsible for the sorry state of affairs.
