Amarinder calls on Sonia
Saturday, 01/10/2011
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi today on her return from the US.
The meeting lasted for half an hour. Amarinder held a detailed discussion with the AICC chief on the political situation in Punjab, particularly in the backdrop of the assembly elections.
He brought to her notice “the lawlessness prevailing in the state”. He also took up the issue of “rampant corruption”. Meanwhile, in a statement, Amarinder Singh said there was nothing unusual in Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal backing out on the proposal to bring in a House resolution on clemency for Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar.
“Badal has always played politics on every issue for his own advantage”, he said. Had he been sincere about the issue, he could have convinced his alliance partner (BJP) to support the resolution, he pointed out. “Badal needs to explain as to how he went public on the issue without taking his alliance partner into confidence”, he observed.
He described outgoing DGP Gill’s appointment as Adviser, Home, as unprecedented. He said this was for the first time that a Home Minister had appointed a proxy for himself and outsourced his job.
“So far, we had heard of teachers and doctors in remote areas outsourcing their jobs. But it is for the first time that a Home Minister, who is the Deputy Chief Minister, has done so too”, he remarked.
He said it was unethical on the part of the government to “rehabilitate” Gill, already under the scanner of the election authorities for his political activities. “Since they could not give him any extension, they got him back through the back door for the obvious intent”, he remarked.
