Former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday said that the SAD-BJP Government was responsible for the bad financial condition of the State.
During the Congress rule, the state never faced any such problem, said Capt Amarinder, who appeared before a Mohali district court in connection with the Amritsar Improvement Trust (AIT) scam.The arguments in the matter continued for almost three hours. Following which, the next date of hearing has been fixed for September 24.
Capt Amarinder said that Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal was claiming that all was well with the state, then why was he seeking the Rs 20,000 crore package from the Centre.He added that the Congress would soon start the Jan Samparak programme in the state in wake of the parliamentary elections.
Punjab Vigilance Bureau had booked Capt Amarinder Singh and others on September 11, 2008, in the land scam case. The Bureau has already filed a chargesheet against Capt Amarinder in the case before a special court in SAS Nagar.