Chandigarh, April 10
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today warned against the Aam Aadmi Party government creating humongous financial liabilities for the next government with its wanton financial mismanagement and taking unrestricted loans even for running day to day affairs like paying employees salaries. He said, a government that is not able to pay even the salaries to its employees has no right and authority to be there.
Warring said as the government has failed to bring out a ‘white paper’ on the financial status of the state, the Congress will bring a comprehensive financial chargesheet against the AAP government as how it ruined the state’s finances by wanton extravagance without generating any new funds. The PCC pointed out how before the 2022 assembly elections the AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann had claimed to generate Rs 20,000 crores annually from sand mining and save 30 percent money from corruption. He recalled how the two AAP leaders had fooled people into believing that the AAP will straightway start with an annual saving of about Rs one lakh crores.
The matter of the fact is that under the AAP the situation has gone from bad to worse and the state debt has crossed Rs four lakh crores. “SO much so the government does not have the money to pay the salaries of its employees”, he pointed out, while noting that the government is taking out a loan for paying the salaries. “This is another dubious distinction the AAP has achieved as it never happened before in the history of the state”, he added.
Warring also criticised the government for its reported move to challenge the High Court order asking it to pay the DA arrears of employees and pensioners by June 30. “It is unprecedented that the state government is challenging the High Court orders which ask it to pay the dues of the employees and pensioners”, he said, noting that it is a blunt refusal to tell the employees that the government has no money to pay them.
Warring disclosed that he has credible information that the Punjab government was seeking more loans for the centre at a higher rate of interest. “For its short term survival, it is putting at stake the financial and economic stability of the state and creating liabilities for the next government as it knows its countdown has started”, the PCC president warned.
