हिंदी
Chandigarh, January 3 2022
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today requested Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit to order registration of a criminal case against chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi for cheating more than 36,000 contractual employees by claiming that the Governor was sitting on the file which recommended regularization of their services when the file was actually in the chief minister’s office.
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Demanding this in a statement here, former minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said it was shocking that the chief minister had mouthed lies regarding the case pertaining to regularization of contractual employees. “The chief minister is claiming that he will lead a dharna to get the file recommending regularization of all contractual employees cleared by the Governor when the truth is that the file is lying in his office and he is sitting on it. This is being done despite the fact that the Congress government is well aware that the code of conduct may be imposed within the next few days”.
Stating that these facts were already in the knowledge of the Governor, Dr Cheema said the former should take strong action against the chief minister for cheating contractual employees. “This is a clear case of violation of constitutional norms also as the clarifications sought by the Governor reveal that the State government has not withdrawn the earlier Bill passed on the same issue as committed before the high court. This means that the chief minister knew he was committing a fraud by getting another Bill passed when the last one had not been taken back.
The SAD leader also demanded that action should be initiated against the chief minister for releasing false advertisements to the effect that contractual employees were being regularized. He said crores spent on these false advertisements should be recovered from the chief minister as well as the Congress party.
Dr Cheema also demanded Mr Charanjit Channi step down as chief minister on moral grounds. He also demanded that the chief minister apologize to contractual employees for deceiving them that their case had been approved when the file had actually been sent back to him by the Governor for clarifications.
