CONG BLAMES MAYOR FOR AMRITSAR’S ‘POOR STATE’
Monday, 27/10/2014
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AMRITSAR: Leader of the Congress group in the Amritsar municipal corporation (MC), Raj Kanwal Preet Singh Lucky, has questioned the sincerity of local bodies minister Anil Joshi towards the holy city of Amritsar, claiming that the minister had not initiated even a single developmental project in the city.
“One-and-a-half years have passed since Joshi became the local bodies minister. In this period, he has done nothing for the city which he represents in the state assembly. If he cannot do anything for his home town, then I doubt he will be able to do anything for the other cities and towns of Punjab,” said Lucky in a statement issued here on Sunday.
Referring to the reported differences between Joshi and mayor Bakshi Ram Arora, the Congress councillor said that the truth had finally come out into the open.
He advised the two that instead of levelling accusations against each other, the two must accept their share of blame for the “poor state of affairs that the holy city finds itself in”.
Reacting to the minister’s advice to the Mayor to request HUDCO for a ` 52 crore loan for carrying out developmental activities here, Lucky said that the minister was not aware of the stringent rules that govern such loans. Every month a certain percentage of VAT collected by MC will go to HUDCO and this process will continue till the entire loan along with the interest is not paid, he added.
