Bikram Majithia exposes Sunil Jakhar with CAG disclosures on debt of Punjab
Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Friday exposed the Congress government as well as its Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar by pointing out how the CAG report had stated that the debt of Punjab would reach the Rs 3 lakh crore mark.
Bikram Majithia said the CAG report had also exposed the lies of the Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar who had claimed that the Punjab budget 2021 being presented on March 8 would be a zero deficit budget.
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“CAG reports do not lie”, he said, adding that the Punjab Congress President was in the habit of diverting attention from the failures of his government with such deceitful lies.
Stating that the CAG report pointed to bad fiscal management by the Congress government, Majithia said other indicators by independent agencies were also ominous.
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“It has also come out that Punjab’s per capita income has been recorded below the national average for the first time in the history of the State due to lack of any effort to take up infrastructure works,” he said.
Majithia also asked the Punjab Congress President not to resort to the same drama before every budget session. He said Sunil Jakhar was in the habit of harping on the Rs 31,000 crore food procurement legacy bill of the Punjab government which was the result of the difference in the calculation for transport and labour charges during food grain procurement for more than 20 years.
"You cannot put the blame for the Rs 31,000 crore legacy account on the SAD in Punjab and admit that it is a disputed issue over transport and labour rates during talks with the central government," he added.
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