Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday continued to accuse Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of ”attempting to mislead the general public” in regards to the alleged neglect proven by the central authorities in direction of the southern state.
The CM had on Sunday charged Sitharaman with attempting to mislead the general public by way of her claims of well timed disbursement of required funds to the southern state by the Centre.
On Monday, referring to numerous financial coverage choices of the Centre, Vijayan mentioned that after constantly taking measures which had been dangerous for Kerala, the Union minister tried to unfold false propaganda about what the central authorities has performed.
The CM mentioned that in addition to slicing down the borrowing capability of the state, the union authorities ended the GST compensation regardless of requests to proceed the identical for a couple of extra years.
”The central authorities is financially strangling Kerala and when public opinion comes up towards the identical, the Centre spreads falsehoods and hides the wants of our state,” he alleged.
The request to proceed the GST compensation regime was made by many states in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the floods of 2018 and 2019 in Kerala and general inadequate financial progress within the nation, he mentioned at a press briefing at Tirur right here.
But the Union Finance Minister tried to shift focus from that problem by blaming the state for allegedly not furnishing GST figures to the Centre, he mentioned.
The CM claimed that the GST accounts have been submitted to the Accountant General who has to put the identical earlier than the GST Council.
Vijayan additional claimed that a number of hundred crores of rupees had been due from the Centre below varied heads since 2017-18 and a significant chunk of it was excellent for the final three monetary years.
He alleged that regardless of a number of rounds of discussions with the Centre by state officers and ministers, the dues haven’t been settled.
Yet, the Union Finance Minister herself was making incorrect and baseless claims, he contended.
Vijayan mentioned that the state was not asking for freebies or the Centre’s generosity, it was demanding what it was entitled to.
Sitharaman, final week, had claimed that funds had been being well timed disbursed to the southern state.
She had additionally dismissed allegations by Kerala’s Left authorities of negligence in fund allocation.
The Union Finance Minister had additionally blamed the state authorities for non-release of funds below varied classes by the Centre, alleging that it was as a result of Left administration’s failure to fulfill the mandatory standards.
Refuting the claims and allegations of the Union minister, Vijayan alleged that the Centre was blocking all income streams of the state and was turning away from its respectable calls for as punishment for Kerala main in all indices of social improvement.
The CM, through the press briefing, additionally referred to the latest tragic incident of 4 lives being misplaced in a stampede at Cochin University’s annual tech competition on Saturday, November 25.
He mentioned that the tragedy underscores the necessity to guarantee safety precautions throughout main celebrations on campuses.
”Standards must be set and strictly enforced to keep away from hazards. The authorities will take quick motion on this regard,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that the rules for conducting such occasions can be up to date quickly in accordance with the wants of the altering occasions and suggested everybody to be extra cautious sooner or later.
Responding to queries about some native members of the Congress and its ally IUML attending the state authorities’s outreach programme, Nava Kerala Sadas, Vijayan mentioned it was an consequence of a unsuitable determination by the UDF.
He mentioned that these attending the programme had been those siding with the bigger public opinion in favour of the Nava Kerala Sadas.
The Congress-led UDF and the BJP have criticised the state authorities’s outreach programme.
The UDF additionally introduced it could be boycotting the programme.
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