Kalia demands thorough probe into e-auction of mining sites on Friday

Ludhiana, May 25, 2017: Senior BJP leader and former Punjab minister Manoranjan Kalia on Thursday urged upon the Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh to immediately order a thorough probe into e-auction of mining sites on Friday.
Addressing the media persons here today, he added that there had appeared news reports stating that bids of at least four employees of Rana Sugars, the company owned by Punjab Power and Irrigation Minister Rana Gurjit Singh were accepted. He added it was astonishing to note that one of the four bidders was Punjab minister’s cook.
Suspecting something foul into the whole process of e-auction, Kalia strongly demanded a thorough probe into the same. He said as the chief minister himself hold the concerned department, therefore, he (CM) should immediate order a probe to bring out the truth.
On the completion of three years of the Modi government, he told that several Union Ministers, state ministers and central leaders of BJP would visit Punjab for the celebration of three years of Modi government in office from May 26 to June 15. The visiting leaders and ministers are as under: Prabhat Jha MP vice president BJP, Avinash Rai Khanna vice president BJP, Tarun Chugh national secretary BJP, Thawar Chand Gahlot Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Harsimrat Kaur Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Nirmal Singh Deputy CM J&K, Vijay Sampla Union State Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment and president BJP Punjab, CR Chaudhary Union state minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution, Nihal Chand Meghwal MP Ganganagar Rajasthan, Om Birla MP Kota (Rajasthan), Gajender Singh Shekhawat MP Jodhpur (Raj), Ram Kumar Verma MP (Raj), Shwait Malik MP Punjab, RP Singh national secretary BJP, Tirath Singh Rawat national secretary BJP, Suresh Khanna Minister for Parliamentary Affaiars, Urban Development, labour and Planning, Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation of U.P and Satish Mhana Minister for Industrial Development of U.P.
Highlighting achievements of the Modi government at the Centre during the last three years, Kalia told that the GDP rate was more than 4 per cent and the nation was on the track of tremendous growth, even IMF and World Bank had admitted that the India was growing. He said now China was lagging behind India as far as growth was concerned. He predicted that India’s GDP rate could be either 10 per cent or more than 10 per cent in the future due to many reasons, including the implementation of GST in the near future, demonetization and reforms.
Further expressing his opinion on GST, he hoped that the implementation of GST would prove to be a game changer. He said GST had already been implemented in 140 countries. He said the implementation of this tax system would make doing business easy and bring down generation of black money. Moreover, the food grain prices would also come down, he hoped.
On the issue of demonetization, he told that six nations had already done demonetization before India. It had not shown its adverse effects in India due to strong economy in India as compared to other six countries that had gone for demonetization, he said. He hoped that more FDIs would come to India in the future due to various reforms being done the Modi-led government at the Centre. He said the countrymen were satisfied with the steps being taken by the Union government and this was the reason that some recent surveys had revealed that the Modi government would repeat in the elections to be held in the year 2019.
Replying to a question, he categorically denied that there prevailed any factionalism in the party in Punjab.
Among others, the party leaders Ravinder Arora (District president), Anil Sareen, Rajat Mohindru, Rajneesh Dhiman and Parminder Mehta were present.