Empty coffers: Now, Navjot Kaur slams Capt govt

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The government should run its buses to generate revenue...legalise mining. Then, everything will be fine. Then the treasury will be filled.

DR NAVJOT KAUR SIDHU, ex-MLA

AMRITSAR: Former MLA and Congress leader Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of former state cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Thursday rebuked the Captain Amarinder Singh government on the issue of its ‘empty treasury’.

“Until the government keeps the income of mining with it; until the government doesn’t make (rules) for liquor sale, excise will continue to be stolen and money will not come into its coffers. This should come to the government instead of going into personal pockets,” said Kaur, who was in Mohkampura locality of Amritsar to distribute winter uniforms to underprivileged students.

She added, “The government should run its buses to generate revenue. The government should legalise mining...deputy commissioners (DCs) should be given powers to collect excise. Then, everything will be fine. Then the treasury will be filled.”

She also dubbed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) as ‘undemocratic and divisive’. “This money should be spent on improving our education system. There should be only such laws which are not divisive,” she added.

On the ‘gangster-politician link’ in Punjab, she said, “Gangsters were made during the tenyear tenure of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-BJP government. I had raised the issue even then.”

On allegations that her husband and former state cabinet minister used government funds to travel to Pakistan to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the Imran Khan government in Pakistan, she said, “My husband did not claim any reimbursement.”