The Chandigarh BJP on Monday released a chargesheet to highlight the scams by the Congress Government and to show the alleged involvement of Congress candidate and local MP Pawan Kumar Bansal in all these scams.
During the election time, the party will be apprising the city residents about the chargesheet prepared against Bansal. “The scam-ridden sitting Congress MP, Pawan Kumar Bansal sans ideologies, agenda and picks his family first, said BJP Chandigarh president, Sanjay Tandon while addressing a press conference here on Monday.
While raising the questions over Bansal’s candidature in the lok Sabha elections 2014, Tandon said, “If the BJP comes into the power then inquiry in all these scams will be done properly. Despite having various evidences against Bansal, CBI gave him a clean chit in a Railgate and he got his name cleared from many other scams by exerting pressure of his influential positions.”
“Bansal may have saved himself from the court of law but his fate will be decided in the Court of people. The voters of Chandigarh will take a moral high ground and root out the corrupt,” he added.
The chargesheet prepared by the party has details about 16 scams. It includes Railgate where Bansal nephew Vijya Singla was caught while taking bribe of Rs 90 lakh, UT booth allotment scam in which the fraudulent allotments ran into crores of rupees that included money being paid to politicians, police officials and officers of the Estate Office. It also includes details of paver block scam of Rs 100 crore in which Municipal Corporation installed costly paver blocks in the whole city
“Teachers’ recruitment scam, CTU Drivers’ recruitment scam, sports equipment scam duplicate ration card scam, shed allotment scam, garbage treatment plant scam, rehabilitation scam, Atta-distribution scam, CITCO scam, Police Recruitment Scam, Cement scam, Firemen Recruitment scam and CTU scam during Congress’ tenure in the city have also been included in the chargesheet prepared by BJP.