Amritsar: Punjab Bhartiya Janata Party state executive member and its former vice president Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina today blamed Captain Amarinder Singh’s Congress government for pushing the agrarian state into the financial mess in which even paying monthly salaries to the employees are becoming difficult.
The situation, he said, is so pathetic that there is an emergency like situation and the top bureaucrats have recently summoned heads of the departments to release only half of the salaries of the employees. In some governmental sections salaries have not been released even for months together.
It is an emergency like situation emerging and the government’s inner sources reveal that the situation will further worsen in coming months’’, said Chhina.
In a press statement issued here, Chhina said that Capt. Amarinder Singh during his election speeches made false promises to improve state economy by inventing new avenues but even after one year in power, no step has been taken to strengthen fiscal conditions. “Rather due to the bad policies of this government and negligence, economy is worst even that of the terrorism times in state’’, said Chhina.
Chhina said that due to the pathetic condition of state economy, the school children are not provided books and uniforms and schools are being closed down. There is no investment coming forth due to the deteriorating law and order situation. The pensions are not being released on times and none of the tall promises made during elections including employment generation has been fulfilled.
BJP leader said that it is shockingly now that that the half salaries would be released for the staff and many other will go without salaries. The new projects are stalled and old won running are being closed down. The staff of Suvidha Centres are without salaries and thus the centres are facing closure now, said he.
Chhina said that the previous Akali-BJP government had managed the financial challenge well despite the difficulties but Capt. has made mockery of fiscal health as he has virtually ran away from the responsibilities as CM and his only aim is to close down projects instead of launching new one. “His government’s first decision was negative and pathetic to scrap the Khalsa University in Amritsar which was a prestigious educational project that could revamp the economy of the border region’’, said he.
Chhina added that present one is the worst and most dishonest governments of all the times as played with the emotions of students, farmers and poor section of the society and they are now fed up listing to the false promises made by Congress leaders including Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu who has made the functioning of the government a mere circus now.