Stating that Punjab Irrigation and Power Minister Rana Gurjit Singh’s resignation had completely exposed the “friendly Commissions” instituted by the Congress government to exonerate Congressmen and implicate Akalis, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday demanded immediate dismantling of the Justice (retd) Ranjit Singh and Mehtab Singh Gill Commissions.
The sacking order given to Rana Gurjit by the Congress high command after finding he was complicit in getting sand mining contracts allotted to his minions, had rubbished the findings of the Justice (Retd) JS Narang Commission, said former minister Bikram Singh Majithia.
He said: “We have been continuously stating that the Narang Commission was instituted to give a clean chit to Rana. Today, we stand vindicated even as the Commission as well as the Congress government stands exposed before the people.”
Saying that just as the Narang Commission was formed with a pre-meditated goal whose script was written in advance by the Congress government, the Ranjit Singh and MS Gill Commissions were also formed to implicate the SAD in incidents of sacrilege as well as blame it for registering false cases against Congressmen, he added.
“They are not Commissions but personal fiefdoms. We demand immediate dismantling of both Commissions. They should be replaced by an inquiry by a sitting judge of Supreme Court judge who should go into all sacrileges committed during the last ten months of Congress tenure as well as false cases registered against Akali leaders and workers by the Congress government,” demanded Majithia.
Majithia said that people’s money should not have been spent on funding the “sham” Narang Commission as well as the Ranjit Singh and MS Gill Commissions. “A government which is crying hoarse about financial crisis is wasting people’s money on Commissions who can never deliver justice to the people. All judges should be asked to refund money used from the State exchequer by them immediately,” he said.