India, March 24 -- Launching a scathing attack on the previous governments, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday asserted that the state's financial condition was never the issue - rather, it was the intent of those in power that remained hollow.
"The treasury was never empty; only the intentions of past governments were. When intentions are right, even limited resources can work wonders," said Mann, speaking at a state-level function in Khatkar Kalan held to commemorate the martyrdom of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Shaheed Rajguru, and Shaheed Sukhdev.
Mann asserted that in the past three years, no Minister or MLA from his government had ever claimed the treasury was empty. "The previous regimes would say there's no money in the excheq...