CHANDIGARH: Amid heated arguments and verbal altercation, Congress councillors on Friday walked out of the MC House during the special budget meet, describing the budget as ‘Mungeri Lal Ke Haseen Sapney’ to attack the ruling BJP’s “poor financial management.”
The war of words between the ruling and opposition councillors reached such a decibel that city mayor Rajbala Malik had to intervene multiple times, directing the councillors not to speak out of turn. But, mayor’s requests failed to make any impact as allegations and counter allegations flew thick and fast.
Criticising the budget, Devinder Singh Babla, Leader of Opposition in the House, said “Rs 1,470-crore budget is like ‘Murari Lal Ke Haseen Sapney’, which BJP can’t realise at any cost. How will they fill Rs 648-crore gap in the budget as depending on MC’s own revenue and grant-in-aid from Chandigarh administration won’t fetch them more than Rs 822 crore.”
“Despite spending crores of rupees, the tertiary treated water supply project could not be implemented properly. And now Rs 10 crore has been kept for the same again. During its regime, Congress used to bring money from the Union government.”
While replying to Babla, former city mayor and BJP councillor Arun Sood criticised the Congress for allegedly damaging the financial structure of the MC by liquidating the fixed deposits (FDs). “It was Congress which broke the FDs and harmed the financial structure of the MC. And now we have been repairing the damages for the past five years since BJP has come to power in the MC. Our (BJP) mayors had brought additional financial grants of Rs 586 crore in the past three years. During the Congress regime, not even a single penny had come except the grant-inaid.”
Former mayor and BJP councillor Davesh Moudgil also attacked Congress for playing politics over the budget. “The budget is balanced and has been prepared keeping all the segments of the society and aspects in mind. Congress is just playing politics over the same,” Moudgil said during the discussion.
BJP councillors Gurpreet Singh, Kanwar Rana, Mahesh Inder Singh Sidhu, Shakti Prakash Devshali were also involved in verbal altercation with Congress’s Devinder Singh Babla, Satish Kainth and Ravinder Kaur Gujral.
The war of words between the ruling and opposition councillors reached such a decibel that city mayor Rajbala Malik had to intervene multiple times, directing the councillors not to speak out of turn. But, mayor’s requests failed to make any impact as allegations and counter allegations flew thick and fast.
Criticising the budget, Devinder Singh Babla, Leader of Opposition in the House, said “Rs 1,470-crore budget is like ‘Murari Lal Ke Haseen Sapney’, which BJP can’t realise at any cost. How will they fill Rs 648-crore gap in the budget as depending on MC’s own revenue and grant-in-aid from Chandigarh administration won’t fetch them more than Rs 822 crore.”
“Despite spending crores of rupees, the tertiary treated water supply project could not be implemented properly. And now Rs 10 crore has been kept for the same again. During its regime, Congress used to bring money from the Union government.”
While replying to Babla, former city mayor and BJP councillor Arun Sood criticised the Congress for allegedly damaging the financial structure of the MC by liquidating the fixed deposits (FDs). “It was Congress which broke the FDs and harmed the financial structure of the MC. And now we have been repairing the damages for the past five years since BJP has come to power in the MC. Our (BJP) mayors had brought additional financial grants of Rs 586 crore in the past three years. During the Congress regime, not even a single penny had come except the grant-inaid.”
Former mayor and BJP councillor Davesh Moudgil also attacked Congress for playing politics over the budget. “The budget is balanced and has been prepared keeping all the segments of the society and aspects in mind. Congress is just playing politics over the same,” Moudgil said during the discussion.
BJP councillors Gurpreet Singh, Kanwar Rana, Mahesh Inder Singh Sidhu, Shakti Prakash Devshali were also involved in verbal altercation with Congress’s Devinder Singh Babla, Satish Kainth and Ravinder Kaur Gujral.
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