Congress wants to hoodwink Punjabis: Bikram Majithia

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 9

Former minister Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday said Congress wanted to hoodwink Punjabis by passing meaningless resolutions that sans legal sanctity on sensitive issues, including the extension of central jurisdiction and the three agri laws.

Majithia was talking to newsmen here after the party received a huge boost with SGPC member Balwinder Singh of Khadoor Sahib and a large section of the leadership which had earlier supported the Ranjit Singh Brahmpura group returned to the SAD fold. These included sarpanches and panchayats of several villages in Tarn Taran.

Terming the holding of a special assembly session as a mere ‘jumla’, Majithia said that instead of indulging in this stage show, the Congress government should pass executive orders forbidding the BSF to indulge in any policing activity beyond 15 kilometres of the international border and make three farm laws null and void in Punjab.

He said similarly the government could cancel its Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with private thermal plant managements instead of going through the bogus drama of passing a resolution on this issue.

“The CM Channi met Home Minister Amit Shah on October 5 and while highlighting the issue of drones and increased drug smuggling demanded increased security arrangements. This is a matter of record and a fact which has been itself disclosed by the Punjab government. What has not been disclosed is that in this meeting CM Channi had surrendered the rights of the state simply because this government is engaged in turf wars only and has no inclination towards governance”.

Asserting that mere resolutions would not have any bearing on the lives of Punjabis, Majithia said the state assembly had already passed a resolution against the three farm laws which was pending with the Governor.

“What practical use can a new resolution be put to? Even on the issue of PPA cancellation, a central Tribunal had already stayed the PPA termination notices sent to the four private thermal plants”, he said.

Majithia also nailed Home Minister’s lie that his son-in-law had been selected on merit as an Additional AG. He said the truth was that Randhawa’s son-in-law did not have the requisite sixteen year experience to become an Additional AG and that he had been given the unjust employment after leaving meritorious candidates by taking recluse to the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ clause.

The Akali leader also pointed out that Randhawa had objected to grant of a police officer’s job to Congress legislator Fatehjang Bajwa’s son but had no qualms in making the ghar ghar naukari scheme into a Congress ghar naukari scheme himself.