Khaira flays Badal for drawing ‘huge’ salary
Wednesday, 22/01/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140122/punjab.htm#10
Chandigarh :PPCC spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira, in a press release here today, said it was “shameful for an ultra rich politician” like Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to draw Rs 1 lakh salary per month at a time when Punjab was facing “its worst financial crisis”.
Khaira said the Chief Minister had ignored the fact that the state was under a “colossal debt of Rs 1 lakh crore”.
As per a survey by Paycheck India, a research initiative of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Badal was the highest paid Chief Minister of India with a salary of Rs 12 lakh per annum. Even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh drew Rs 1.60 lakh per annum.
Khaira said one could not ignore that “an exorbitant amount of taxpayers’ money was being spent by the Badal family on their luxurious lifestyle. “We are aware that a huge cavalcade accompanies the Badals when they travel by road. The security paraphernalia of the Badal duo and Bikram Majithia is beyond any rationale. They are all provided with more than 200 security personnel each under the so-called Z-plus category. Such arrangements are only equal to the feudal dictators like Saddam Hussein of Iraq,” he added.
