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SAD says CM fudging excise revenue figures

Chandigarh, May 16 (UNI) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) said on Saturday that chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh was lying to the people and fudging figures to show an increase in excise revenue during the Congress government's first year in office even though it had caused consistently losses to the State exchequer as far as liquor tax collections were concerned for the last three years.
It also expressed grave concern at the blatant manner in which Congressmen were running illegal distilleries and indulging in bootlegging and demanded the immediate arrest of Congress legislators Madan Lal Jalalpur and Hardyal Singh Kamboj. It also called for immediate institution of a High Court monitored inquiry to look into the Rs 2,000 crore illicit liquor scam as well as the Rs 3,600 crore excise revenue loss suffered by the State in the last three years as per its own Cabinet ministers. “Punjabis want an independent probe into the Rs 5,600 crore liquor scam and the chief minister is duty bound to respect their wishes”, the party asserted.
Senior SAD leaders Bikram Singh Majithia and Dr Daljit Singh Cheema while addressing a press conference here, said the constitutional crisis which had arisen after Cabinet ministers questioned the authority of the Executive, had deepened how with the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues taking radically opposite views on the issue of excise loss. While asking the chief minister to give the exact excise loss incurred in the last three years, they also asked him whether he would now take action against his cabinet colleagues who had stated that the State had incurred an excise loss of Rs 3,600 crore in the last three years. They said the ministers on their part should tell whether they agreed to the chief minister’s assertion that instead of incurring any loss of excise the State had incurred an average increase of 1.6 per cent per year. “Both should explain their position as people want to know who is lying? The ministers or the chief minister ? The ministers also had a dig at those who called themselves “Asli” Congressmen vis a vis “Duplicate” Congmen and said both category who had been active in media and on Twitter should also explain themselves now.
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