Channi’s claim of lowest fuel prices in region false: Bikram Majithia

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Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 8

Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday accused Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi of lying and indulging in deceit by spending crores on false advertisements claiming petrol and diesel rates were the lowest in the region whereas the truth was that the rates were higher in Punjab than that in Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu.

The senior SAD leader was addressing a press conference here during the course of which senior AAP leader and councillor Amarjit Bhatia joined the SAD along with his supporters.

Majithia said even now when the Congress government was forced to reduce petrol and diesel prices, it was indulging in skullduggery by claiming that its rates were the lowest. “The diesel prices in the state were more than Rs 3 per litre than that in Chandigarh and Rs 3.25 per litre higher than that in Himachal and Jammu,” he said.

Majithia said for the last few years, the rates of petrol and diesel were the highest in Punjab and Rajasthan, both states were ruled by Congress governments. He said the Punjab Government did not reduce the state VAT on petroleum products even when the Centre reduced excise duty by Rs 5 on both petrol and diesel.

Majithia asserted that only the CM face had changed, but the loot of the state and its resources continued. He condemned the Congress government for making the ghar ghar naukari scheme applicable to only sons and relatives of Congress ministers and legislators.

When questioned about the tirade of Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu, he said, “Sidhu had rightly pointed out that Punjabis were being served lollipops at the fag end of the tenure of the Congress government which had done nothing for last nearly five years. He did not have faith in the CM and had virtually brought a motion of no-confidence against him,” he said.