Badal Govt taking illegal decisions, says Congress
Thursday, 30/01/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140130/punjab.htm#10
Patiala : Punjab Government decisions to distribute tubewell connections through halqa in-charges (area chiefs) of the SAD and the BJP and making it mandatory for a central cooperative bank officials to tie blue turban have not gone down well with the Congress that termed the decisions as “unconstitutional and illegitimate dictates”.
Punjab Pradesh Congress spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira has demanded from Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to give up all such “illegitimate” orders and follow the rules.
“We will not approach an Akali or a BJP leader for a tubewell connection and the government knows it well. By giving halqa in-charges the authority, the government wants that the tubewell connections should only be bagged by SAD supporters,” he said.
PSPCL Director (Distribution and Commercial) Surinder Pall said he was unaware of the move as he was on leave. “You talk to the PSPCL Public Relations Department,” he said. PSPCL CMD KD Chaudhri did not respond to repeated phone calls.
Khaira said that earlier, Badal had authorised the SAD-BJP legislators and halqa in-charges to recommend out-of-turn repair of link roads in the state. “The government is duty bound to repair link roads after every six years. Badal illegally authorised his political cronies to choose link roads that were to be repaired, forcing panchayats to plead the local MLA or halqa in-charge to get the work done,” he added.
