The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday condemned Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh for planning a sanitised press conference to mark the completion of four years in office by asking media persons to submit their questions in advance.
Stating that this spoke volumes about the State of the Congress government, former minister Daljit Singh Cheema said “forget facing the public, the government is unable to even face the media now. This is why media persons are now being asked to hand over their queries days in advance to the scheduled press conference on March 18”.
Asking the chief minister why he was going through the motions of a fixed press conference, Cheema said “the Congress government could have very well issued a hand out stating it had completed 100 per cent of the promises made to the people as part of a one day publicity stunt in the same manner in which it had claimed last week that 84.6 per cent of the poll promises made to the people had been fulfilled”.
Asserting that the Congress government was insulting the fourth estate by passing such draconian directions, the SAD leader said such conduct was also not conducive for a thriving democracy.