Asking Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu not to make empty claims, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday asked him to take action if there was any irregularity in any tourism project.
“Are you going to put tickets at the heritage street in Amritsar as well as other projects to earn a few extra bucksIJ” asked SAD MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa.
He said: “We know earning money is of paramount importance to you. You work for money only. Your negligible work in Government is limiting to repeating stale one liners and deriding your political opponents. You even abused opposition members in the Vidhan Sabha recently. Expecting you to function normally is expecting too much from you”
“You must now tell Punjabis if you will demand ending of all subsidies and benefits given to them including the Atta-Dal scheme and free power subsidy extended to farmersIJ” he asked stating that Sidhu was behaving like an egomaniac and had become a danger for the Congress government also.
“His blood pressure shoots up in a second and he starts abusing and misbehaving with others. He may have got away with this behaviour on the cricket field and the commentary box and even the comedy circus show, but SAD will hold him to account in the Vidhan Sabha. We will continue to protest against his boorish behaviour and bring him to book,” he said.
Stating it was asking for too much for a profiteer and comedian like Sidhu to work for public good, he said the minister had not made a single contribution in any of his departments of local Bodies and Tourism till now.
“He is busy roaming around and holding inspections during which he likes to lord over officers besides demeaning them for cheap publicity in the media,” said senior Akali leader.
He added that Sidhu even stooped to the extent of trying to appropriate the Partition Museum, set up by former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, as a Congress creation.
“Sidhu even let his ego come in the way to scrap country's first amphibious bus tourism project at Harike Pattan. It was aimed at bringing Harike Pattan wetland and bird sanctuary on the world map. Now Punjab has lost this opportunity,” he said.
Asking Sidhu to correct his behaviour immediately or be corrected, Dhindsa also asked him to talk less and do more.