BJP has left the State under the whooping debt of Rs. 75000 crore
Hitting back at Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, Anurag Singh Thakur, pertaining to his statement of loan being taken by the State Government and doing lavish expenditure, the State Education Minister, Rohit Thakur and Rural Development Minister, Anirudh Singh in a joint statement issued here today advised Anurag Singh Thakur to first raise his finger towards the previous BJP Government which crossed all the limits of borrowings from the centre.
Giving a befitting reply, the Ministers said that the present Government had taken loan to repay the liabilities of the Jai Ram Thakur Sarkar, which has left the State crushing under the whooping debt of Rs. 75000 crore. The BJP government even denied the rights of the employees which have accumulated to Rs.11000 crore, said the Ministers blaming the previous BJP Government of financial mismanagement and wasteful expenditure derailing the economy of the State.
BJP leaders were making hue and cry over the loan taken, to pay back their overdrafts, stated the Ministers.
“What type of Double Engine ‘Sarkar’ was of BJP, which failed to garner any financial support from their senior central leadership sitting at the helm of governance”, questioned the Ministers. The previous BJP Government enjoyed the power, leaving mounting debt and the present Government was taking loan to repay the same, they affirmed.
During the State’s visit, the BJP central leadership always boasted of Himachal being a second home to them, Double Engine ki Sarkar, pahaad par khoob tej daud rahi hai” (the double engine Government is running successfully in the State ), but they utterly failed to get the special packages for the State to benefit the people, jibed the Ministers.
They said that the previous BJP Government in the fag-end of its tenure announced opening and up-gradation of over 920 institutions in the State with an eye on the general elections. The State would require about Rs. 5000 crore for smooth functioning of these institutions but the previous Government did not make a provision of single penny for proper functioning of these offices. They said that all these institutions were opened and upgraded with a sole motive to woo voters without any budgetary provision and irrational thinking.
It was due to the unmindful and unproductive expenditure of the previous State Government that the present State Government has been forced to take loan, they affirmed.
It is nothing, but the frustration of BJP, coming to the fore after the people of the state rejected them straightway in the elections.
The Ministers advised the BJP leadership to refrain from issuing statements having no base and think optimistically for the betterment of the people rather casting aspersions on the government which has come to power by the blessings of the people.
