Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday condemned the unconstitutional and undemocratic dismissal of the Congress Government in Uttarakhand and imposition of President’s rule there, calling it murder of democracy and a brute attempt at undermining the federal structure of the constitution.
Capt Amarinder also asked the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to clarify his stand on the issue since it (the dismissal of the Uttarakhand Government) undermines the basic principle of federalism he (Badal) has always been beating his breast about. “It is a paradox that Badal’s daughter in law, Harsimrat Kaur Badal was party to the cabinet decision that recommended the unconstitutional dismissal of the Uttrakhand government while he himself has always been crying hoarse about the attempts to undermine federal structure of the constitution”, the former Chief Minister pointed out, while remarking, his party had now become party at those attempts by supporting the dismissal of an elected government.
He said, this was yet another example of Badal’s characteristic double standards that he preaches something and practices something else, like running with the hare and hunting with the hounds.
The PCC president expressed surprise as how the BJP government at the Centre led by Narendra Modi, who himself having been a Chief Minister and who has always been arguing for a strong federal structure, could dismiss an elected government without allowing the Chief Minister to go for the floor test in the assembly.
“The confidence or no confidence in a government can only be decided inside the Vidhan Sabha and the BJP led NDA government at the centre did not wait for that to happen”, he pointed out, while warning that the BJP at the centre was setting wrong and dangerous precedents.
Meanwhile, Pardeep Chhabra president Chandigarh Congress has also condemned the imposition of the President’s rule in the Uttarakhand and termed it as the murder of the democracy by the BJP Government.
Chhabra said that the decision of imposing the President rule reflects the autocratic and tyrannical attitude of the Narendra Modi, who was least bother about the democratic norms.
He said that Modi should remember that the people of the country are now aware and will teach the Government lesson at appropriate time. He added that it was not the first time that the Government killed the democracy but this Government was doing it the past when it cracked the whip on those who opposed its ideology and speak freely.