Punjab Congress vice-president Manpreet Badal on Monday said funds to the tune of Rs. 10,000 crore would be required to implement the promises made in Congress party’s poll manifesto
To that end, Mr. Manpreet, the co-chairman of the Manifesto Committee and the chairman of the Manifesto Draft Committee of Punjab Congress, said there is a need for striking a balance between increasing revenue generation and reducing government expenditure.
He said that the Congress government would curtail government expenditure and boost revenue generation by eliminating the various mafias, that had been diverting public funds into their personal coffers.
“Eliminating the various types of mafia , operating at the behest of current government, would itself lead to massive increase in the revenue generation, thereby putting the state finances on the right track and bringing it out of its current fiscal mess,” said Mr. Manpreet .
Mr. Manpreet denied the allegation that it was a populist manifesto, saying it was a fair manifesto aimed at providing relief to every section of the society that has been affected from the Akali’s misrule spanning a decade.
On the issue of the Swaminathan Commission report, Mr. Manpreet said that the Congress government would strongly take up the matter with the Centre, adding that if it failed to implement its recommendations then the next Congress government at the Centre would take up the responsibility.
