Opposing Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s proposed programme of holding Sangat Darshans in Dhuri Assembly segment that fall vacant on Tuesday after sitting MlA Arvind Khanna’s resignation was accepted by the Speaker, the Punjab Congress on Tuesday wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner to restrain him to go ahead with the same.
lodging a protest, the party has urged the CEC to restrain Badal from “influencing” voters in Dhuri Assembly constituency. It also demanded to videograph Badal’s programme. In the complaint to CEC HS Brahma, the State Congress spokesman Sukhpal Singh Khaira alleged that keeping in view the imminent by-election for Dhuri seat, Badal had on Monday announced that he will organise ‘Sangat Darshan’ programmes in the constituency in two phases from January 21 to 24 and then from January 27 to 29.
“The Sangat Darshan programme of the Chief Minister is a completely politically-motivated exercise, to strengthen his party SAD at the cost of public exchequer,” he said in the complaint. The copy of the complaint was sent to Punjab Chief Electoral Officer VK Singh and also released to the media.