Manpreet Singh Badal Congress Candidate
Bathinda, 24th December 2016: (APS Brar) Congress Vice-president and party candidate from Bathinda Urban Manpreet Singh Badal today said all the last minute political appointments being made by the Parkash Singh Badal government to reward loyalists would be reviewed after coming to the power in February 2017 Assembly elections.
Speaking with media persons, Manpreet said these appointments amounted to distribution of political spoils as barring a few, most of these appointments were that of chairman and vice-chairman etc in various bodies including the state boards and corporations majority of which have been in perpetual losses.
“At the time when the Badal government is counting its last hours, such appointments not only lack moral authority but also amount to political corruption. The government has remained insensitive to Bathinda turning into dharna capital of the state with various sections of society staging protests here for months. One or the other main road in the town remains blocked every day. An EGS teacher tries to immolate himself but there is no reaction from the government. On the other hand, rewards in the form of such appointments are raining on loyalists of the government. This is criminal”, he added.
The Congress leader said it was shocking that the government had even gone to the extent of amending various acts governing some boards and corporations to create posts like that of senior vice-chairman to accommodate its political loyalists that goes against all cannons of good governance. This was an extreme in the context of total insensitivity as exhibited by the government in the case of agitating sections. He said it was unprecedented that two EGS trained teachers had been agitating atop a tower of the mobile company for more than two weeks just 500 metres away from the official residence of the Punjab Chief Minister without the government reacting to the situation.
He made it clear that such actions of the present government that were not only anti-people but amount to corrupt practices would be reviewed with the Congress forming the government in the state in the forthcoming Assembly elections.