If my writ runs in VB, Bhagwant Mann should resign, says Ashu

Continuing his attack on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab Congress working president Bharat Bhushan Ashu said on Saturday that if his writ really runs in the Vigilance Bureau (VB) as claimed by AAP, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann does not deserve to hold his position even for a day as it means he has lost the confidence and control over his government and departments.

When asked about his reaction over AAP leaders repeatedly claiming that he had himself got the summons issued from the SSP, Vigilance Bureau, Ludhiana, to gain sympathy, Ashu retorted: “If that is realty true, then don’t you think Bhagwant Mann, who is the Chief Minister and heads the Home and Vigilance Departments deserves to resign as he has no control over his own departments.”

He observed that the AAP was frustrated and panic-stricken as it has started feeling the ground slipping out from beneath their feet. “Now, the AAP candidate is at the third spot and you never know his fortunes may dip further to the fourth place,” he said while claiming that the AAP candidate had confided it to his close aides that he had taken an unnecessary plunge into electoral politics.

Reacting to a remark that Mann had justified the appointment of outsiders at various positions in the state government by saying that talented people from one place can be posted at other places, Ashu asked the CM: “Tell us whether there has ever been any appointment of any Punjabi from Punjab in Delhi during the 15 years of AAP rule there”.

“You implicated people like me in false cases. Just remember the cycle of justice does take a full turn and everybody will be held accountable,” he said.