India
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Chandigarh, Feb 01: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday flayed the Union Funds, saying it displays the Centre’s persistent efforts to sideline non-BJP dominated states.
His response got here hours after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman offered the Union Funds for 2021-22.
The Punjab CM claimed that the Funds was reflective of the BJP-led central authorities’s complete apathy in direction of the widespread man, the center class and farmers.
Amarinder criticised the Centre for the stepmotherly therapy meted out to Punjab and different northern states, claiming that it was “designed” to cater to the poll-bound states of West Bengal nad south India with a large infrastructure growth allocation for these areas.
The Funds additionally manifests the central authorities’s persistent efforts to sideline non-BJP states like ours, in addition to its anti-federal mindset, stated the CM, pointing to the hole between the fiscal deficit targets fastened for the Union authorities and states.
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The Punjab CM claimed the very important sector of defence has not been adequately addressed regardless of the rising border risk from China and Pakistan whereas the allocation for the well being sector was down amid the COVID-19 disaster.
And did the Finance Minister not discover it essential to even point out constitutional assure for the MSP, one of many key calls for of the farmers battling chilly and lathis on the doorstep of New Delhi for over two months now, the Punjab CM requested.
He lamented the 2 per cent hike for the agriculture sector, which had been the one effectively performing sector for the nation amid the coronavirus lockdown.