Amarinder to Saini: Do not‘breach’ service discipline
Thursday, 25/10/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20121025/punjab.htm#6
Chandigarh : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today advised Director General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini to “stick to service discipline and not pass flippant comments”.
In a statement, Amarinder said Saini should leave politics to politicians and get down to his own business of maintaining law and order in Punjab, which was “deteriorating” with rampant crime and drug addiction.
Reacting to Saini’s statement given to the Press yesterday, the Congress chief said, “Are you the chief minister or the Home Minister of Punjab to come out with political statements? The police officials have no business indulging in political posturing to please their political bosses. This neither goes with the discipline of their services nor the decorum of the office of the Director General of Police.”
That the Punjab Police chief should comment on the functioning of the Congress, which represents millions of people across the state, and level “mindless” allegations against it was none of his business, he alleged.
Amarinder said he himself had been the Chief Minister and Home Minister of Punjab for five years and knew well how the police functioned or should function. “You should refrain from making statements about the Congress’s functioning and leave that job to me,” he said.
Reacting to the statement, Saini said Amarinder's statement was "distasteful". "I advise him to be ethical," he said.
