Cong raps govt for freezing DA while continuing with ‘vanity projects’

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New Delhi  25.04.2020

Criticising the Modi government for freezing the dearness allowance of central government employees, Congress on Friday said the Centre was attacking the common man during the coronavirus crisis while continuing with its multi-crore “vanity projects”. It accused the government of giving a signal to the private sector and state governments to cut salaries and dearness allowance.

“It is an insensitive and inhuman decision of the government to cut DA of central employees, pensioners and soldiers serving the public despite battling coronavirus, instead of suspending the multi-million crore bullet train project and the Central Vista beautification project,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted.

Congress spokesman Randeep Surjewala said, “The GOI, instead of healing the people and giving them financial support during the pandemic, is hurting the people of India.”

Surjewala said while DA had been taken away from 1.13 crore employees and pensioners and would save the Centre ₹38,000 crore, the government was going full steam ahead on the ₹20,000 crore Central Vista project and has refused to deduct any expenditure on the ₹1.10 lakh crore bullet train project.

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