Navjot Sidhu writes to Sonia Gandhi to discuss Punjab issues

Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu  has said that Punjab for decades was the richest state of the country and today it is the most indebted state of India. The is submerged under Lakhs of crores of Debt due to gross financial mismanagement over last 25 years and diversion of public resources making a few powerful people rich and having left the state Debt-distressed. Sidhu highlighted thw situation of the state in a letter written to party high commnd Sonia Gandhi. He list out issues facing the party in the state. He shared a copy of the same on Twitter.

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— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) October 17, 2021

Sidhu further said that the BJP government at the Centre for the past seven years has “supplemented” the issues by “discriminating against Punjab while paying its financial dues such as GST payments, Rural Development Fund payments, Post-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Castes payments etc.” “I further request you to kindly give me a personal audience to present to you the Punjab Model with a 13-Point Agenda to be part of the Congress Manifesto for the 2022 Assembly Elections, which is separate from this by means of its long-term vision to be implemented over a longer period of time, have crafted it through years of consultations with academics, civil society, party workers and feedback from the People of Punjab,” Sidhu said.