Will install trader as finance min if voted to power: Sisodia

Alleging that the SAD-BJP government in Punjab has "ruined" the industry, AAP leader Manish Sisodia today promised to install an "industrialist" as the state's finance minister if his party was voted to power in February 4 polls.
"If AAP is voted to power, the new government would induct an industrialist or trader as finance minister to promote industry, which has been ruined during Parkash Singh Badal's regime," he told a gathering of businessmen in Batala.
Batala is a prominent industrial hub and the Delhi deputy chief minister was in the town to campaign for party's state convener Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi, who is contesting from Batala.

"We have abolished the Inspector Raj in Delhi due to which businesses have grown after registering a negative growth rate during the previous Congress government," he claimed and added that in Punjab too "we will do the same".
"We have also charted out a plan wherein incentives will be given to industry in the border region," he said.
In Batala, 75 per cent of foundries have closed due to the "lop-sided industrial polices and high tax structure" imposed by the Badal government, he alleged.
Sisodia said an AAP government will give special emphasis on setting up cottage industries in villages and the new units will automatically translate into employment opportunities.

"If there is industry there will be jobs. If there are jobs youth will not take to drugs as they will remain busy in earning livelihoods for themselves and their families. This is the reason why we see setting up of more units as an antidote to drug use," he added.