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(Asks CM to come clean on two different letters on same issue written under CM’s signature to Governor)
(Dr Daljit S Cheema demands FIR be registered in the case, also requests Governor to direct govt to probe the matter)
Chandigarh, October 21 :– The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government had played a serious fraud with the constitutional head of the State – the Governor as well as Punjabis by sending a letter to the Governor in English but releasing its forged and fabricated version in Punjabi on social media.
In a statement here, former minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said since the fraud had been perpetrated in the name of chief minister Bhagwant Mann along with the latter’s signature, it was incumbent on the chief minister to come clean on the matter. “The chief minister should disclose whether he was party to this act and whether it had his acquiescence. If not then the chief minister should get an FIR registered in the case and institute a high level probe into the entire matter. “Since the issue is also one of constitutional propriety, the SAD also urges the Governor to direct the chief minister to order an independent inquiry into the issue and ensure exemplary punishment for those guilty of forging documents as well as their dissemination”.
Dr Cheema said the very fact that neither the chief minister nor the AAP government had issued a clarification on the issue despite the matter being pointed out by the Governor himself indicated AAP was playing politics on the issue. “AAP is a master in the art of deception, but it was not expected that the party would indulge in this practice while communicating with the Governor. While the party has chosen to present what is claims is a factual account while protesting against the removal of the Vice Chancellor of PAU, Ludhiana by the Governor in the letter written to him in English, it has chosen to politicize the issue in a letter written and released on social media under the chief minister’s signature. Such subterfuge is not becoming of the office of the chief minister”.
The SAD leader also questioned the AAP government as to how Punjabis could have faith in their announcements when the government had deceived the constitutional head who had sworn it to power. Referring to the announcement about the old pension scheme being reintroduced in the State, Dr Cheema said “it seems this has been done to woo government employees in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. If this was not the case the AAP government, which presented its budget in June, would have kept provision for this scheme in the current financial year”. He also asked the chief minister to explain how he would implement the old pension scheme while asserting that it had not been implemented in Delhi also.
Dr Cheema also brought out the falsities in the claims made by the government today. He said the government and its ministers had got used to lying. “Contrary to claims about grant of government jobs on compassionate grounds being restarted in the PSPCL, the truth is that this was restarted by former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal in 2010 after it was stopped by the erstwhile Capt Amarinder Singh Congress government”.
