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Briefly Region: ‘Gunda tax’ in next session

Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Sunil Jakhar on Sunday said the issue of extortion of “gunda tax”,to the tune of lakhs of rupees,would be raised in the next session.

Written by: Express News Service
2 min readMar 14, 2014 03:31 PM IST First published on: Sep 23, 2013 at 04:56 AM IST

Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Sunil Jakhar on Sunday said the issue of extortion of “gunda tax”,to the tune of lakhs of rupees,would be raised in the next session. Jakhar said the sand scam mafia,allegedly patronised by the SAD-BJP government,made the Reddy Brothers of Karnataka look like puny operators. Adding that despite intervention and instructions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court,the Punjab government had failed to streamline sand mining under the pressure of sand mafia.

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