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Chandigarh, December 9: Lambasting Punjab Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal for mortgaging the state to fetch votes in the name of development, the former state Congress president Mr Partap Singh Bajwa called upon the Badals to replicate their family model of development as their business had grown exponentially over the years after coming into power. He expressed the apprehension that going by the present situation, entire state would have been mortgaged by the time people throw out this thoroughly corrupt and degenerated government next year. He demanded that the centre must declare financial emergency in this border state.
He said earlier, isolated reports used to appear about the government selling some property to raise funds for the so called development but what is shocking that even the properties like widow home that is Gandhi Vanita Ashram in Jalandhar where Mahatma Gandhi too had been mortgaged. There could be nothing more shameful than this.
“Going by what is happening in the bankrupt state, this government could mortgage even the people in the state when nothing else is left. This is a shocking model of development as the refrain of the Deputy Chief Minister all along has been that there is no shortage of funds for development works. This fraud with the people now stands exposed with 12 properties including jails having been mortgaged with the banks to mobilise Rs 2100 crore”, he added.
Mr Bajwa pointed out that here was a government that had so far failed to meet even the basic needs of the people as hospitals were without doctors and medicines and schools without benches, blackboards and teachers and now in the last year, the effort was to appease people at their own cost that was nothing but fooling them in the name of their development. Such raising of loans could not be justified by any standards and moreover, Sukhbir should disclose the people as to how his business has been proliferating and why the same model could not be applied to the state. The people had also the right to know as to how the state had come to such a pass that might not have happened anywhere else in the country.
Mr Bajwa said the continuation of this government further would be too risky for the state as by the time this dispensation went out next year, the entire state might have been mortgaged, he added.
