AAP: Amritsar Improvement Trust executed backdate tenders in North constituency

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 10

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has filed a complaint against suspected execution of tenders of the Amritsar Improvement Trust (AIT) in the North constituency under back dates of January 6 and January 7, 2022, to District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Khaira.

In a press conference held here on Monday, Arvinder Singh Bhatti, an AAP leader who retired from the AIT, alleged that it was against the guidelines of the Election Commission of India (ECI). He stated that Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, a retired IPS officer, of the AAP came to know from a reliable source that tenders of the AIT in the North constituency, which was not executed after January 1 due to non-issuance of work orders would be now executed after the implementation of the Model Code of Conduct on back date of January 6 and 7, 2022, by editing and altering the dispatch dates which was against the SOP of the ECI.

Flanked by local AAP leaders Rajinder Kumar Plah and Shukrat Kalra, Bhatti urged the DEO to bring the dispatch register of the AIT under his custody immediately to avoid any discrepancy.

They said the state exchequer was being misused by repairing and relaying some roads in winter, which is done only in summer in warm temperature. These roads would not be durable. Kalra alleged that the BDO was releasing cheques to replace kutcha roofs with concrete and its officials were giving these to ruling party leaders, instead of handing them directly to the recipients.