Chandigarh, June 19
Criticizing the Captain Amarinder Singh-led Punjab government’s decision to appoint Congress MLA Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa’s son as police inspector and MLA Rakesh Pandey’s son as Naib Tehsildar, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema said that with this, the anti-people face of the ruling Congress government has been exposed in the public. In a statement issued from the party headquarters here on Saturday, Harpal Cheema said that the AAP condemned the decision of the Captain government of giving jobs to two youths, whose families are well off, have financial resources and are sons of four and two time MLAs, respectively.
Cheema said that Captain Amarinder Singh’s Ghar-Ghar Rozgar has turned out to be ‘Congressiyan de Ghar Rozgar’. He said that on one hand, the sons and daughters of martyrs and common people of Punjab were being humiliated in the name of job fairs and forced to live in poverty; while on the other hand, the sons of selected Congress leaders, who are already well off; have been given jobs of inspector and naib tehsildar. Earlier also, the Captain government had circumvented the rules in 2017 by directly appointing former CM Beant Singh’s grandson as a DSP, he added. “Today, this decision of the Captain government is against the youth of Punjab. Captain Amarinder has promised to give Ghar-Ghar Rozgar, but in reality it is only limited to a number of Congress leaders’ families,” said Cheema.
The LoP further said that today, the constitution in Punjab was ruined and there was nothing like law and order. Cheema said that the ETT-TET pass youths were struggling on streets, protesting and sitting on dharnas for employment. Also, contractual employees were waiting for regularisation and for fulfillment of other demands; but in return were cane-charged, beaten and harassed, he asserted. “Today, ‘Jungle Raj’ is prevailing in Punjab and Captain Amarinder has once again taken an anti-people decision by giving jobs to sons of selected Congress leaders. It is clear from this fact that the Captain government is taking anti-people decisions,” said Cheema.
Taking a dig at Captain Amarinder Singh, Cheema asked as to how many sons and daughters of ordinary families killed in terrorist attacks had been given government jobs by Captain. The AAP leader demanded Captain Amarinder Singh to quash the appointment orders of jobs given to the sons of Congress MLAs, which were in violation of the rules. He said that government jobs were needed by ordinary families and not by the families of billionaire MLAs. Cheema said that the Captain government had also not paid any heed to the para national and international players of Punjab, who were struggling unemployed.
