Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday maintained that Ferozepur’s Congress MlA’s charge that their government was being run by the bureaucrats has once again vindicated its allegations that Punjab Government is “for the babus, of the babus and by the babus”.
“The Government is being run by a small coterie of officers and blue eyed boys of the Chief Minister,” said AAP MlA and the leader of Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Sukhpal Khaira.
Taking a jibe at Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh for being absent from the State and for failing to address the issues of not only the people but even his own party MlAs, Khaira said: “Congress MlA Parminder Singh Pinky has out of frustration termed that the Capt Amarinder Government is being run by bureaucrats and that elected representatives have no say in it.”
“His outburst is a result of his efforts to convince his Government to accord state guest status to a 14-member military contingent from UK, arriving to attend a state function being held at Saragarhi (Ferozepur) on September 12,” Khaira said. Khaira said that this is not the first time that Congress MlAs have expressed resentment over not being heard by the Chief Minister.
The loP said that Capt Amarinder’s callous and indifferent attitude can rightly be equated with the erstwhile Roman Emperor Nero, who played the flute while Rome was burning. The Chief Minister has very conveniently taken a flight to England, while Punjab is burning and faced with multi prong problems such as unending farmer suicides, unemployment, no salaries and pension to the employees and the crumbling law and order.