Ask Majithia to resign, BJP secy tells CM

Varinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 22

The BJP will oppose the no-confidence motion to be moved by the Congress in the Vidhan Sabha tomorrow, said BJP chief Kamal Sharma today.

“Why should we support the Congress motion when we are part of the government? It is a different matter that we have been consistently demanding the resignation of the Chief Parliamentary Secretary Avinash Chander and Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia,” he said.

The BJP national secretary, Tarun Chugh, said his party did not want to “play games” and wanted to resolve the drug issue. He said although the BJP would oppose the Congress move, his party wanted the Chief Minister to ask Majithia to resign.

He pointed out that the CM had asked his minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur to resign on similar grounds and “it will not be in the interest of either the SAD or the government to adopt a different yard stick for different persons involved in the case.”

Chugh said his party did not want the image pf the image of the SAD-BJP government tarnished.

“Majithia should have offered to resign. By volunteering to do so, he would have strengthened the Badal government’s resolve to eliminate the drug mafia,” he said.

Slamming PPCC chief Partap Singh Bajwa for “politicising” the issue for vested interests, Chugh said the Congress should look within. “ How many times has he sought the resignation of Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary who too had been summoned by the ED,”he asked.