Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday announced to get all the alleged cases of corruption and malpractices, including the contentious Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), happened during the decade-long SAD-BJP regime probed by the Vigilance Department. The move is aimed at fixing the responsibility of “all those involved to derail the state’s economy by looting the public exchequer for their personal vested interests”. Channi, addressing the House after tabling of White Paper on Power Sector (2006-07 to 2020-21), reiterated the State Government’s commitment to nail all such dishonest leaders of the SAD-BJP government who amassed ill-gotten money through various mafias of sand, transport and drugs.
Reiterating the Government’s commitment to bring all the culprits involved in the sacrilege cases of the holy scripture Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji to book, Channi said that the ongoing investigations in this regard would be certainly brought to the logical end so that all the perpetrators of this heinous crime should be given an exemplary punishment as a deterrent for others.
Likewise, the big sharks involved in drug mafia, howsoever high and mighty they may be, would not be spared at any cost.“None should consider me weak though I am down to earth but will not brook any pressure from anyone to deviate from my path,” said Channi adding that he would not show any sort of complacency as far as any action is warranted by his government for welfare of state and its people. Channi further said that he was quite hopeful that drug report would be opened on November 18 with intervention of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He assured the people of Punjab that he would leave no stone unturned to break backbone of drug mafia and none would be allowed to go scot free.
Training guns at Majithia, the Chief Minister said that Akali leader was trying to intentionally disturb the special session since its start in the morning just to find an excuse to be ousted from the House and finally, he succeeded when the Speaker was compelled to “name” him and his party colleagues for the rest of the day.
“Majithia and his party men didn’t have courage to face the criticism against Akali Dal’s misdeeds of rampant corruption and nepotism during its misrule of over 10 years,” he said.Lambasting AAP for ridiculing the State Government for taking pro-people decisions with an eye on the forthcoming assembly elections, Channi said that he was from the humble background and a aam aadmi in the real sense being well versed with genuine concerns and hardships faced by common people at grass roots level.
“What AAP’s convener had been trying to appease the different sections of people by making false promises in wake of assembly polls in state has been actually done by us in the letter and spirit within a short span,” he claimed, while listing out the decision taken by State Government under him.