CHANDIGARH: Former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday lashed out on the AAP leaders, together with chief minister Bhagwant Mann, for “distorting and misinterpreting a routine administrative determination of the central authorities offering central advantages to staff working with the Union Territory administration”.
In a press release, he stated this was a long-pending demand of the workers, a lot of whom are drawn from Punjab, that they be given all companies advantages on a par with the central authorities staff. “Now that the central authorities has agreed to their demand, the place does Punjab’s declare over Chandigarh get diluted?” he requested.
“In any other case”, he added, “I would be the first individual to oppose any such transfer that goes in opposition to the pursuits of Punjab.”
Difficult Mann to get a clarification from his supreme chief Arvind Kejriwal about his stand on the Satluj-Yamuna Hyperlink Canal challenge and different points associated to Punjab, he stated, “Let the AAP clear its stand on these points as an alternative of beating across the bush on petty administrative issues.”
Amarinder requested Mann and Kejriwal to supply related advantages to the Punjab authorities staff, “as an alternative of knit-picking”. He additionally urged the leaders of different political events to desist from misinformation on routine administrative issues simply to attain brownie factors. Interesting to them to not fall within the lure of AAP and pursue its agenda to divert consideration from essential points, he stated, “It is best to maintain the AAP authorities accountable and answerable on guarantees they made and at the moment are attempting to wriggle out of, as an alternative of raking up points that haven't any affect on Punjab’s declare over Chandigarh.”