Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) on Sunday demanded immediate dismissal of Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka from the Cabinet for allegedly embezzling funds meant for buying books for schoolchildren.
PPCC general secretary Fateh Jung Singh Bajwa pointed that SAD-BJP Government in Punjab has lost its credibility due to involvement of its Ministers in scams. Earlier, Animal Husbandry Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike was named in scandal involving grants of border area development fund, he added.
Maintaining that Maluka “deserves no leniency”, he said, “What could be more shameful that a senior Minister who is very close to family of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had not even spared the school children to fulfill his greed of money. Maluka should be arrested and the inquiry into the books scam shall be handed over to Central Bureau of Investigation.”
Warning the Chief Minister against giving clean chit to the corrupt Minister, Fateh said that Punjab Congress under the leadership of its president Partap Singh Bajwa would launch an agitation against all the scams and anti-party policies of SAD-BJP Government.
“Akali Ministers are misappropriating grants meant for SC and BC students. After practical copy and library books scam, now science kit scam has rocked the Education Department. Education Minister has stooped so low to make dirty money that firm selected by him supplied vulgar books which also contained derogatory remarks against national and State leaders,” said Fateh.