Too little too late: Captain on recruiting claims
Friday, 20/11/2015
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CHANDIGARH: Congress deputy leader in Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday said the Punjab government’s claim to recruit people now is a desperate bid by a desperate government to befool people, which would not cut any ice with them.
“This is too little and too late,” Amarinder remarked, while pointing out that the extent of unemployment in the state is too humongous to be addressed by such announcements.
Ridiculing the government’s decision to award life imprisonment for sacrilegious acts, he said, “When this government has not been able to identify the culprits of the sacrilege, what is the point in raising the punishment to life term? It is like shooting the air.”
Reacting to the cabinet decisions, Congress Legislature Party leader Sunil Jakhar said the SAD-BJP alliance would have to do much more as the damage control exercise.
Jakhar said the alliance had promised to increase old-age and widow pension by 100%. The pension should have been increased from `250 to `500 in 2012 when the government took over for the second term.
Arrears thus amounted to `11,000 for each beneficiary and the government owed `2,200 crore to about 20 lakh pensioners.
