Imprudent & politically communal decision on Malerkotla: Tarun Chugh

Chandigarh, May 15 (UNI) BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Saturday said that the Amarinder Singh government’s decision to create Malerkotla as a new district in Punjab was administratively an imprudent and politically a communal decision.
In a statement here, Chugh said at a time when the state was reeling under heavy debt and the economy stood crippled the decision to create a new district which would involve an added burden of at least Rs 1000 crore annually on the state exchequer looked purely “imprudent and injudicious” decision.
The BJP leader said the state administration was already crippling due to small districts that have been carved in the past due to political reasons.
He said making an announcement of Malerkotla, a Muslim dominated city, as a district on Eid was “politically and communal” decision.
“Ever since Independence this is for the first time that an administratively communal decision has been made in Punjab which prides itself for its secularism,” he said.
The BJP leader said Amarinder Singh has, for the first time since Independence, sowed communal seeds in the state where harmony and amity have been the guiding principles.