Chandigarh: Chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa on Monday exchanged heated argument with each other in the Vidhan Sabha.
The Chief Minister, while slamming leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa for shielding the corrupt by criticizing action of Vigilance Bureau (VB) against tainted leaders of floor of house, said that his government has adopted zero tolerance policy against corruption and exemplary action will be ensured against the leaders involved in sins against the state. He said that no one can stop him from acting against these culprits who have mercilessly robbed and ruined the state. Bhagwant Mann said that it is a sorry state of affairs that the Congress leaders are trying to patronize those people who have looted the wealth of the state by misusing the power given to them by people.
He said that the corrupt leaders whether they are from ruling side or opposition won’t be spared at any cost. He assailed the Congress for being neck deep in corruption adding that the Congress leaders misused their positions to rob the public wealth. Bhagwant Mann assured the house that nothing can deter him from taking stringent action against the corrupt leaders.
Reacting to this, Bajwa in a strongly worded retort to chief minister Bhagwant Mann said he was the last man to support the corrupt but the latter could not be selective and vindictive only against the opposition leaders.
In Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal continued to dub former AAP cabinet minister Satyendra Jain as an equivalent of Shaheede Aazam Bhagat Singh. Though the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had booked him for corruption and money laundering allegations.
“ Why double standards on Satyendra Jain. When Kejriwal and Mann claimed that Jain was being falsely implicated they wanted everyone to believe so. However when congress makes a similar charge in Punjab Bhagwant and the entire AAP leadership gets edgy and cagey”, said Bajwa.
Bajwa said if Bhagwant Mann actually wanted to fight corruption why he has failed to get his own party’s Rajya Sabha MPs Balbir Singh Seechewal and Ashok Mittal of Lovely Professional University (LPU) investigated by the vigilance bureau who have illegally encroached upon several acres of Panchayat land.