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Chandigarh, April 27: Senior Congress leader and former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal today blasted the cash strapped Parkash Singh Badal in touching new low in governance with the decision to induct seven chief parliamentary secretaries taking their number to all time high of 25. This government had no moral right to take such decisions with few months remaining.
“With a few months to go for Assembly elections, Chief Minister Badal is out to make a mockery of everything that goes by the name of governance and people themselves. Here is a government that is mired deep in scandals and tops among all other states for the use of ways and means account for meeting day-to-day needs. The state government proposes to use Rs 19500 crore from ways and means account during the current fiscal and this is the highest ever. The government was dependent on this account for 315 days in 2015 going by the Reserve Bank figures. The government is dependent on this account for its basic functioning. It is tragic that the government that is facing such bankruptcy is appeasing its MLAs in its last few months at the cost of public exchequer”, he said.
The former finance minister said it was apparent that this government had lost all sense of shame so far as such looting of the public money is concerned as no prudent political leader in the top seat of governance would play such a cruel joke on its people. He said here was a state where on an average two farmers and farm workers were committing suicide but the government had turned totally immune to the plight of the people.
Manpreet asserted the fifth tenure of Badal would go down in history as the period of the most reckless governance in its history besides being the most corrupt. This government would end up as the example as to how to use government resources to build up personal empire, he added.
