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Industry left Punjab due to poor policies of Badals, AAP would bring it back, says Arvind Kejriwal
July 5, 2016 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau
Chandigarh: According to a press release by the Aam Aadmi Party, AAP’s central convener and Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday “assured” to the traders and industrialists of Punjab that his party would attempt to clear the pending backlog of Value Added Tax (VAT) refund in the first three to five months of forming the government in the state.
Arvind Kejriwal was interacting with the traders and industrialists of Ludhiana Township, who came to share their problems pertaining to various hardships being faced by them in Punjab due to poor policies and rampant corruption in the Parkash Singh Badal led SAD-BJP regime in the state.
Arvind Kejriwal
AAP convenor said the AAP would also formulate a policy within one month in Punjab so that VAT could be refunded to the traders and the industrialists on time and its backlog did not pile up.
Informing about the work, AAP government has done in Delhi during its one and a half year long tenure, Kejriwal said he took several new initiatives to simply the collection of VAT in the from the business community in the national capital.
“Similarly the AAP led Delhi government has rolled back VAT from 12.5% to just 5% on the request of the traders and industrialists on various commodities such as wood, marble, granite. Sweets, footwear and clothes so that they could do business with ease “, said Kejriwal.
He said the first thing AAP did immediately after coming to power in Delhi was stopping of the random raids on the business community by the VAT collection inspectors to curb Inspector Raj. “These raids were primarily conducted to get hefty bribes from the business community which we have completely stopped in Delhi”.
He said the way traders have turned up in large numbers it was quite apparent that they were not at all happy with the policies of the Badal government. Besides it also confirmed AAP was the only hope for the traders and the business community in Punjab.
Kejriwal said he always believed that governments had no dearth of money of they had good intentions to provide people friendly governance. “Problem arises when the government like that of Badal start looting its own people by levying heavy taxes and bureaucracy indulges in large scale corruption”.
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Related Topics: Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab Government, Punjab Politics, Punjab Polls 2017
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