Stop blaming Centre for your failure: Capt Amarinder raps Badal
Friday, 23/08/2013
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/punjab/stop-blaming-centre-for-your-failure-capt-amarinder-raps-badal/85376
CHANDIGARH: Former Chief Minister and permanent invitee to the Congress Working Committee Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for attributing his failure to provide relief to the flood hit farmers in the state to the centre.
In a statement issued here today Capt Amarinder said, the centre has nothing to do with such issues and it is the state government which has to take the final call. The standard practice is that the state government does a special girdawri about the damage and then sanction relief to the farmers.
“In fact Mr Badal has been doing the same in the past and I am surprised what makes him to blame the centre now?” he asked, while advising Badal to stop putting each and every blame on the centre when everybody knows providing relief to farmers is the state’s responsibility.
The former Chief Minister said Badal’s condition was understandable as thanks to his myopic leadership the state has been pushed to the bankruptcy. He pointed out that the state has no money even to pay the salaries to its employees so where will it get money from for paying relief to the farmers.
“Instead of admitting to the fact that he has squandered all the money of the state and has nothing to pay to the farmers Mr Badal is trying to wrongly pass on the blame on the centre which is ridiculous as nobody is going to buy his argument”, Capt Amarinder remarked while asking, “if everything has to be done by the centre then what for is the Chief Minister there, he better quit.”
