BJP to ask Punjab Government to step up drive against Drugs - Grewal
Ludhiana: 22 October, 2014 -
Punjab BJP Leader Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal today said our party would urge the State Government to pass on the benefit to commuters with diesel rates cut, the BJP will ask the Punjab Government to slash bus fares. Describing it as the Diwali Gift from the Narendra Modi Government. Talking with the media persons here today Grewal said his party wanted the drug menace in the state to be eliminated and would ask the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to step up efforts to take on the Drug mafia in the State. He said that our party wants effective police officials to tackle the issue. He said that the campaign against drugs seems to be waning, our party will raise the other issues including Regularising illegal colonies. Grewal told though the decision in this regard was taken long ago, legal formalities are yet to be completed. Our party BJP wants officials to be told that these should be expedited. He said that we wants the process to be completed before the municipal elections. Grewal said that we also wants the decision not to levy VAT on marriage palaces implemented in letter and spirit also, the issue of VAT refund is yet to be sorted out. He said that it is clear that owing to the delay in refund, our party workers had to face angry voters in urban areas. Grewal said that we wants a time bound and transparent refund system in the State.
