Chandigarh, August 28,People of Punjab know it for a long time that the fiscal reform agenda of Mr. Manpreet Singh Badal Finance Minister Punjab is unacceptable to the Akali-BJP leadership. One completely agrees with him that present budgetary resources cannot support the large scale subsides. Present financial crisis is too deep that it is endangering Punjab’s economy as debt to GDP ratio and, ratio to annual income in the budget, crippling the future growth rate in agriculture, Industry , infrastructure etc. Its pity that the Government has been persistently stonewalling all important decision on finances be it end to subsidies or resource mobilisation with no sense of urgency.
It is a matter of grave concerns when FM of the state has admitted so candidly that health and education sector are being deprived of the funds they deserve just because of the resource crunch and fiscal constraints. Mr. Manpreet Singh Badal should not be presiding over this ruinous and crisis ridden path, if the cabinet refuses to listen the dark signals of destructions of the Punjab economy.
The Government should not only be burdened to provide clean drinking water to the people of Gidderbaha constituency alone, under the reverse osmosis (RO) water purification programme, surely other people of Punjab too deserve disease free clean drinking water.
We really laud the convictions of the Finance Minister to economic reforms and changing the course of Punjab’s economy. As now it is more than year and half his advice is not accepted in the council of Ministers, the only respectable course left for him is to quit the cabinet that does not listen to him.