New Delhi, July 14
Asking BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu not to advise the Congress-ruled states on issues of governance, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said that his government was in the process of unravelling “overseas assets” of SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal.

Talking to mediapersons at a press conference, the Chief Minister said state agencies “were on the job’’ to find out the overseas assets of Mr Badal but the process would take some time. “We will bring these out before the people,’’ he said.

Responding to Mr Naidu’s remarks at Chandigarh yesterday about his “one-point agenda,” the Chief Minister said the BJP chief should look after the governments where the BJP was ruling. “The Congress-ruled states follow directions of the Congress president,’’ he said.

The Chief Minister, who met Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani today, said issue of alleged corruption during the previous regime did not figure at the meeting. “The meeting was about the ghaliara project in Amritsar,’’ he said.

To a question, the Chief Minister said he would not allow interference by the Centre on the issue of fighting corruption. “This country has a federal structure. Every state can act as it thinks proper. Punjab people had given us a mandate for anti-corruption drive,” he said.

The Chief Minister said state Vigilance officials were not allowed to do their job for five hours by the INLD and Akali Dal workers during yesterday’s raids in Gurgaon. “Everyone should support the anti-corruption drive, but if they don’t, we have no option,’’ he said.

The Chief Minister denied that the NDA government had exerted pressure on him regarding cases against Mr Badal. “It is not for the NDA government to tell us how to run our states...The anti-corruption drive will continue until corruption ends,’’ he said.