The BJP on Sunday said that Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh was demonstrating his “misplaced monarchical instincts” by asking the Governor VP Singh Badnore to take orders from him.
“The Chief Minister should exercise basic constitutional proprieties while addressing a Governor, who is a constitutional head of the State, who knows whom to summon in the face of collapsing law and order situation in the State,” said BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh.
He said that the Chief Minister had no right to dictate or bully a State Governor on the matter. “Punjab Governor knows his constitutional duties and he is behaving in his constitutional dharma. It’s Capt Amarinder Singh who is not discharging his constitutional duties and is behaving like a maharaja in the democratic set up,” he added.
“Punjab is not the Patiala royal palace,” Chugh said adding that the Chief Minister should know his limits and constitutional duties.
“Had the Chief Minister been discharging his duties towards Punjab, it wouldn’t have become the land of mafia gangs and the people wouldn’t have been living in terror where there is a jungle raj,” BJP’s national general secretary said.