Union Health Minister JP Nadda said on Friday that Congress cannot run the Himachal Pradesh government even for a day without the help of the Centre. Nadda said the central government provides Rs 500 crore as grant for revenue deficit and Rs 800 crore as grant for salary and pension payments.
Union Health Minister JP Nadda said on Friday that Congress cannot run the Himachal Pradesh government even for a day without the help of the Centre. Addressing an event organized by the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bilaspur, Nadda said the central government will provide Rs 500 crore as grant for revenue deficit and Rs 800 crore as grant for salary and pension payments. Gives Rs.
The BJP national president claimed that Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu talks ‘different things on different occasions’. He said, when he speaks in Himachal Pradesh and during elections, he says that the state does not get anything from the Centre, while on the other hand, in Delhi he expresses gratitude for the financial help, and pleads for more help. ‘ He said, ‘Congress cannot run the government in Himachal Pradesh even for a day without the help of the Centre, but the state government has no account of where the money is being spent.’
Nadda said that Sukhu ‘broke all the records’ of the previous Congress governments by not paying the salaries of the state government employees on the first of this September. He called it the ‘biggest disaster’ of the current government. The minister also claimed that drug addiction is increasing in Congress ruled states. He said that recently the Congress leader’s involvement was found in the drug seizure case worth Rs 5,600 crore.
The BJP leader said, ‘If there is Congress, there is corruption, Congress (means) criminalization and commission.’ Nadda said the Congress government was taking the state backwards where all the development works started by the previous BJP government had stalled or been stopped. Giving the 100-day ‘report card’ of the central government, the Health Minister said that six crore people have been linked to the Ayushman Bharat scheme, which provides a health cover of Rs 5 lakh every year. He said the central government has approved infrastructure projects worth Rs 3 lakh crore, 12 industrial smart cities, eight national corridors conducive to high-speed driving and laying of rail lines on eight routes.