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Meltdown: Sukhbir finds who messed up everything
WSN Network 

CHANDIGARH: No one has ever accused Sukhbir Singh Badal of being a top notch data-crunching economic analyst or a financial wizard but the king of neo-liberal economic model in Punjab has had the cheek to accuse the economist duo of PM Manmohan Singh and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia of mishandling the economy in the post-meltdown era. Sukhbir said the two were responsible for loss of lakhs of jobs. So far, he has not held them personally accountable for the fall of AIG or Lehman Brothers but it could be because of his personal ignorance of such entities. Sukhbir banged into such wisdom while speaking to some businessmen in Khanna last week, and wondered "what kind of economists were running the government who could not foresee the crash of the stock market from 22,000 points to 7,000 points, which again translated into loss of crores of rupees for small investors."

He found a major economic scandal lurking in the documents which even his alliance partner BJP's whiz kids had missed. "UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi owes an explanation to the people for Rs.50,000 crore missing from the exchequer according to an affidavit submitted by the Comptroller and Auditor-General to the Supreme Court," Sukhbir said. Senior journalists complained that they had to make extraordinary effort to suppress their laughter and the politicians should stop testing their capacity at not giggling when such gems are flung on unsuspecting hacks.

1 April 2009
 

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