Chandigarh, Feb. 24 -- Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader RP Singh has launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab, alleging a massive discrepancy between the state's actual sand mining revenue and the pre-poll promises made by the party leadership.
Citing recent comments by AAP's own Member of Parliament, Malvinder Singh Kang, the BJP leader claimed that the "illegal sand mining racket" continues to flourish under the patronage of the Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal administration. Singh pointed out that while the AAP had famously guaranteed an annual revenue of Rs 20,000 crore from sand mining during their election campaign, official data reveals the current average collection is a mere Rs 288 c...