Cong demands white paper on utilisation released by UPA
Friday, 19/09/2014
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Khadoor Sahib (Tarn Taran):The PPCC chief alleged that the Badal government with frittering away the allocation of Rs 850 made by the UPA government to the state to deal with the problem of water-logging and floods said Congress committee president Partap Singh Bajwa after addressing a Political rally gathering to mark Guru Angad Dev at khadoor sahib on Thursday. He said that heavy rains had again created havoc in parts of the Malwa region and Badal must explain to the people as to where there money had been diverted. He demanded a white paper on the utilisation of the funds released by UPA for this purpose.
He slammed Badal for squandering the public money through Sangat Darshans. Rs 3,000 crores is being squandered through Sangat Darshans every year purely on the whims and fancies of the CM. Badal was still stuck in the feudal mindset. He said that now even Arun Jaitley has raised serious objections of misuse of RDF and PIDB funds and the Union Finance minister wants these funds to be routed through consolidated funds for monitoring and transparency. The Punjab Congress President, Partap Singh Bajwa, lambasted the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, for entering into alliances with other political parties purely to protect his vested business interests rather than on any ideological basis as evident from Haryana.
He pointed out that the Akali Dal was in alliance with the BJP in the state and at the Centre but the party was opposing its own alliance partner in neighbouring Haryana where it was in partnership with the Indian National Lok Dal led by Om Parkash Chautala, now in Tihar jail, citing family ties while in essence, business interests were at the core. He added that it was the Devi Lal government which had allotted to kland to the Badal where now stand a seven star hotel.
He said that Badal had been trading the Haryana Sikhs for the business interests of his family and it was for this reason that he had misused every Sikh institution to oppose the formation of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee as this was going to end his monopoly. He announced that the Congress would launch agitation shortly on the issues concerning the farmers, the immediate one being reduction in the moisture limit from 15 to 14 per cent which would create problems, especially in the context of late monsoons. This step of GoI will virtually destroy the Rice Shelling industry in Punjab and farmers will have to face lot of hardships to sell the paddy crop.
Bajwa said that earlier Badal could pass on the blame to the UPA government at the centre alleging discrimination but now it was his own government in power at the centre in which his own daughter-in-law Mrs Harsimrat Kaur Badal was the cabinet minister but they hurt the sentiments of the people by getting a single demand accepted. “Badal promised truckloads of money with Modi becoming Prime Minister but on the contrary, the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, had rejected the demand for a special package.
He further said that the tyres of his money truck have been deflated by the Modi government. He alleged that while Badal and Badals had promised truckloads of money, these were there but going out in private trucks in the form of earnings from sand and drugs.
