Cong will probe BRTS scandal after coming to power: Amarinder

Congress Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha and local MP Capt Amarinder Singh today said that if his party comes to power in 2017, it will probe the "financial scandal" in the Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) in Amritsar.
In an informal interaction with reporters at the residence of Gurjit Aujla, District Congress Committee, Amritsar (Rural) president, Capt Amarinder said that the whole project has gone haywire and it was difficult to make out why it was conceived at first instance.
He said, the entire project will be probed as it smacked of a "massive financial scandal".
He also visited some incomplete sites which has been causing lot of hardship and harassment to the local people.

Maintaining that the project appears to be "ill conceived" as its "viability" was not assessed, the former Chief Minister said, the whole aim appears "to mint money" without caring for the general public who have been subjected to undue hardships as the roads in over half of the town remain dug out making even pedestrian movement difficult not to speak of vehicular traffic.
He disclosed that during his Chief Ministership between 2002 and 2007 he had got Amritsar included in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission and massive grants had been sanctioned under this project.
He said, it helped in providing clean drinking water and improving the sewerage system in the city.