LUDHIANA--  Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari today lashed out at Akali-BJP government in the state
for imposing the house tax on the people of the state. “It simply mounts to picking pockets of helpless people to fill the empty
coffers of the state”, he remarked in a statement issued here today.Demanding immediate withdrawal of the tax, he said, it was not only exorbitant but absolutely uncalled for. Tewari said, the state government appears to be trying to plug small holes in an otherwise sinking ship by imposing arbitrary taxes on common people.

                The minister said, as if the backbreaking electricity bills were no enough to shatter the economic equilibrium of the common man, the Akali-BJP government has come out with a highly insensitive and ruthless house tax thus making life more difficult for everybody. Tewari, who represents Ludhiana parliamentary constituency, advised the state government that these taxes were not going to retrieve the economy, which is in total shambles due to its own mismanagement.



          The Minister said, the government should better build up the trust of the people and the investors that can lead to generation of revenue. “If the government thinks that it will improve its economy by picking pockets of people it is badly mistaken”, he warned.