Chandigarh, August 3: Upping the ante against Fastway and chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh as well, local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu sought an audit of the company for the past ten years, on Wednesday. He claimed that the company had not paid taxes of Rs 20,000 crore. Without naming anyone, he called the present government “Kamzor” (weak), two days ahead of a Cabinet meeting on August 4 (Friday).
“I need the support of the CM and other cabinet colleagues to take action against the cable company,” he said, adding that he would move this item on the agenda for Friday’s meeting.
He went to add, “The excise department that collects the taxes is with the CM. If an ordinance is passed and that power be given to the local bodies department, I am ready to audit the accounts of Fastway cable network, Ferr vekkhiyo main ki kardaan jinney (Fastway) rajj ke luteya (then see what I do to the company which looted (the state).”
In the four-month-old Congress government, there have been other instances too when Sidhu has sought the CM’s support and decided to make his call for action public (see box).
So far, Amarinder has been silent on Sidhu’s utterances.
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