Overview
- In the Assembly, R S Bali said records showed Rs 6.78 lakh for 14 months at his official home, while his own 32-month total is Rs 2.98 lakh.
- Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said Bali’s actual 14-month bill is Rs 1.68 lakh and that his own was shown as Rs 3.76 lakh versus an actual Rs 1.43 lakh.
- Sukhu said officials told him the Public Works Department supplied the figures and may have included previous-year arrears.
- He said corrected amounts will be placed before the House and that a probe will follow if deliberate misreporting is suspected.
- Speaker Kuldeep Pathania warned of action for any intentional errors, as social media posts magnified the incorrect figures.