Badal hijacked central varsity project: Bajwa
Friday, 02/08/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130802/punjab.htm#5
Sujanpur : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Partap Singh Bajwa today said it was high time the Punjab and Haryana High Court took suo motu cognisance of reports appearing in various forums, including the print and electronic media, about illegal mining in and around Sujanpur and Pathankot.
Speaking at his party’s mass contact programme here today, Bajwa said these towns had earned the sobriquet of being the “epicentres of illegal excavation”. Bajwa hinted that politicians of the ruling SAD-BJP combine were allegedly backing the mining mafia. He said such mining was being done at various places in and around Sujanpur, including at Madhopur, Kerian and Damthal.
He also said the Union Government had approved a central university for Pathankot but Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in a “subtle political move, managed to hijack the project to the Malwa region”. “Likewise, sanctions accorded to several industrial projects by the Union Government during my tenure as MP were not followed up properly by the state government, following which they are lying in a limbo,” he said.
Bajwa was presiding over the programme, which was turned into a mini rally by his supporters. The organiser of the event, Vinay Mahajan, a known Bajwa loyalist who unsuccessfully contested the last assembly election on the party ticket, adopted a novel idea by making women Congress workers sit in an adjacent hall where three LCDs — broadcasting the main event — were installed. But commotion prevailed when Bajwa made an appearance on the dais and the party workers too tried to get on to the stage.
Mahajan, however, deftly handled the situation. “The problem started when too many people barged on to the stage. But, we did not let things go out of hand,” he averred. Earlier, scores of motorcycle riders, who were part of the Youth Congress, welcomed Bajwa when he entered Sujanpur.
