Chief Minister following Shah’s diktats, says Warring

Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday questioned Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over the state’s governance, asking whether he or Union Home Minister Amit Shah was in charge.

He was talking in context of Amritpal Singh’s arrest and his subsequent shifting to the Dibrugarh jail, allegedly at the Centre’s behest. He said Shah’s statement came close on the heels of the AAP government’s crackdown on farmers, about which nobody had any doubts as to who had pulled the strings for that action.

‘AAP B-team of BJP’

Reacting to Shah’s statement in Parliament suggesting that it was actually the Centre that had sent Amritpal Singh and his associates to the Dibrugarh jail, Warring said, “The Congress has always held that AAP is the B-team of BJP.”

“We thought the Punjab Police did it (sending Amritpal and others to the Dibrugarh jail). Now we know at whose behest it was done,” he said. Asserting that the people already knew that the CM was following diktats of the Union Home Minister, he said, “Do we need any further evidence that our CM follows the diktats of the Union Home Minister?” Otherwise, Mann should clarify and contradict the Home Minister’s statement, he said.