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Friday, November 26, 1999

Gehlot unleashed financial anarchy -- BJP

PRADEEP KAUSHAL  
JAIPUR, NOV 25: The Rajasthan Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here yesterday accused the Ashok Gehlot government of unleashing a financial anarchy in the state and sought a status paper on the present fiscal condition.

BJP spokesman Ghanshyam Tewari, state vice-president and former Energy minister, said the ruling Congress had betrayed the trust of the people and forfeited its right to rule the state. Thanks to its incompetence and mismanagement, a complete anarchy had set in with regard to finances, he alleged.

The petrol and diesel bills of the police personnel posted at rural police stations had not been paid for the past three months, he said. The Central Government assistance for rural development projects in various schemes had lapsed because the state had failed to contribute towards the matching funds needed to avail of the assistance, he further added.

The state government, according to him, needed to explain what it had done with a total of extra-budgetary Rs 7,200-crore, of which Rs 5,000 hadcome to it as loans, Rs 1,000-crore from additional taxes, Rs 1,100-crore worth of repayments withheld from the Centre and Rs 50 crore diverted from the Rajasthan Finance Corporation .

Tewari claimed that Rajasthan had received the money earmarked for it under the ushal eight heads on time the share under the Gadgil formula from the Central kitty, various Central schemes, rural development schemes, Central loans, plan assistance and loan, natural calamity fund, the allocations as per the 10th Finance Commission, the rural electrification programme and the UGC grants. If the finances were not in their normal health, it was the state's doing, he added.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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