Alliance showered bounties on select industrialists: Bajwa
Saturday, 31/08/2013
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Jalandhar : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Partap Singh Bajwa today alleged that the state government had showered favours on a few industrial houses by sleeping on the recovery of hefty loans running into several hundred crores for years.
Such policies, said Bajwa, were to blame for the alleged financial emergency-like situation facing the state. he was speaking at the Congress' 'Mass Contact Programme' function at Dhina village in Jalandhar cantonment constituency.
"The quantum of the loot can be gauged from the fact that the mere interest component of such loans, extended by the Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation (PSIDC), has crossed Rs 4,200 crore. The loans were facilitated to only a few top industrialists who were close to the Badal family. Now, finding itself in the muddle of financial mismanagement, the state government has hired private agencies to recover these," he said.
Bajwa said the money was meant for the development of the industry but not a paisa was spent to achieve the real goal. "The money, in fact, was pumped into real estate by the beneficiaries," he said.
He alleged that a few select blue-eyed bureaucrats were indulging in wrongdoings at the behest of the top SAD-BJP leadership. "They are part of the loot. We are preparing a list of such officers and they will be dealt with sternly when we come to power," he said.
'Perjury by AG office'
Bajwa hit out at Moga MLA Joginder Pal Jain for continuing on the post of Warehouse Corporation chairman despite submission in the Punjab and Haryana High Court by the state Advocate General that he had quit. "It is a clear case of perjury. We appeal to the Chief Justice to order initiation of criminal proceedings against the Advocate General and Jain."
‘Dy CM on leisure trip’
Questioning the motive behind Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal’s Istanbul visit, Bajwa alleged it was a "leisure trip" on the expenses of the tax-payers money as major solid waste management projects in the world were either in America or the UK. "The government should reveal the purpose of the visit and as to who had incurred the expenditure," said Bajwa.
