Punjab MLA will pay income tax himself

CM Bhagwant Mann

Punjab’s 117 MLAs will now have to pay income tax from their own pockets. The Punjab government used to fill it when the Congress was in power. CM Bhagwant Mann will announce it tomorrow. Earlier, the AAP government of Punjab has also announced ‘One MLA-One Pension’. During the time of Congress government, the government was paying income tax of 93 out of 117. The government had paid quarter to three crore income tax in 4 years. The special thing was that the MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party were also involved in this.

Along with former CM Badal and Sidhu, AAP’s government also gave tax of 15 MLAs.
Among the MLAs whose income tax continued to be filled from the government treasury, the names of 5-time CM Parkash Singh Badal and Congress chief Navjot Sidhu were also included. The special thing is that the names of 15 MLAs of AAP, now in power in Punjab, were also among those who took this benefit. Out of which Aman Arora, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Prof. Baljinder Kaur, Budhram, Kultar Sadhwan, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hair, Sarvjit Kaur Manuke and Jaikishan Singh have come as MLAs for the second time. In these, Kultar Sadhwan has now become the Speaker of the Assembly and Gurmeet Meet has become the Minister of Hair.

Punjab currently has a debt of 3 lakh crores. For the future, the CAG has estimated

These leaders, including the captain, kept paying income tax themselves
Some leaders, including Captain Amarinder Singh, who was the CM in the previous government, have been paying their income tax on their own. These include the then Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly and the current Finance Minister Harpal Cheema, Manpreet Badal, Tript Rajinder Bajwa, Sukhjinder Randhawa, Sukh Sarkaria, Balvir Singh, Brahm Mohindra, Gurpreet Kangar, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, MLAs Simarjit Bains and Balwinder Bains, Kuljit Nagra. Including 24 MLAs.

Dainik Bhaskar had questioned Mann Sarkar in this regard.