Congress seeks White Paper on Punjab’s financial situation Reckless borrowing by AAP has pushed Punjab to bankruptcy : Warring Chandigarh 5 March ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : Punjab Congress today demanded a White Paper on the state of finances in Punjab in view of the mounting debt that has crossed the Rs four lakh crores “redline” and is projected to reach Rs 4.17 crore by the end of this fiscal. "Reckless borrowing by the AAP government has brought Punjab on the brink of bankruptcy ", the party warned. Reacting to the mammoth debt burden that the AAP has incurred on the state, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said while all previous governments during the last three decades have borrowed, the current government has borrowed it with wanton greed without caring for the future of the state. He said, while the previous governments accumulated Rs 3 lakh crores debt in thirty years, the AAP added over Rs one lakh crores to the state debt in just four years...
SAD to provide same civic amenities as cities to all 13,000 villages once it forms govt : Sukhbir Singh Badal
SAD to provide same civic amenities as cities to all 13,000 villages once it forms govt : Sukhbir Singh Badal (Also announces to release all DA arrears and reintroduce the Old Pension Scheme) (Urged Pbis not to be befooled by AAP’s plan to sell govt lands to its favourites in the guise of providing Rs 1,000 per month to women for three months) Mansa 5 March ( PDL ) : Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced the SAD was committed to holistic development of rural areas and would take up development of all 13,000 villages by laying concrete streets and sewerage system besides cleaning and beautifying village ponds and building ‘pucca’ houses for each and every villager bereft of his own home once it formed the government in 2027. Presiding over a massive rally of the Sardulgarh constituency at Jhunir along with senior leader Balwinder Singh Bhundar, the SAD president said “we have drawn up a plan to upgrade infrastructure in villages in phases with 3,000 vil...