The secretary, All India Congress Committee, and party spokesperson, Manish Tewari today flayed the SAD-BJP government in the state for imposing various taxes on the people. He said the government was trying to overcome its economic and financial failures by imposing taxes and burdening the common man.In a statement issued here today, Tewari pointed out, the recent decisions of the state government to impose luxury tax and the building cess in the state only reflected the highly insensitive nature of the government towards the common people. He argued this would hit the common man too hard.The AICC secretary maintained that the SAD-BJP government in the state had no vision about how to govern. He said while the law and order remained at its worst, the economic and financial position of the state too was precariously placed. He pointed out that everybody knew that the state did not have sufficient funds to pay salaries to its employees. Now it is trying to rob the common people by imposing unreasonable taxes which were only heard of during the colonial period.He said the state government had done nothing to generate revenue for keeping the economy in good health. He said due to the wrong policies of the government, earnings of the government had fallen. He said the details available with him suggested that there was a substantial fall in the collection of stamp duty, one of the main sources of revenue. He regretted that while the people running the government were getting richer, the government was getting poorer and common people were being made to bear the brunt.
