An uproar erupted within the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Tuesday after Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa alleged that Energy Minister Harbhajan Singh had requested senior officers within the energy company throughout Punjab to gather funds for the Aam Aadmi Celebration forward of the lately concluded Delhi Meeting polls. He demanded {that a} Home Committee or a Judicial Fee ought to examine your complete affair.
Harbhajan Singh hit again at Bajwa for levelling “baseless allegations” in opposition to him and questioned the Chief of Opposition on allegations levelled in opposition to him for scams when he was the PWD Minister in Congress authorities.
The heated alternate between Bajwa and the minister, prompted Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan to intervene and ask them to take a seat down. Sandhwan even banged his gavel to revive order within the Home.
Talking throughout Zero Hour, on the concluding day of the two-day Vidhan Sabha session, Bajwa claimed that the PSEB Engineers Affiliation had written to to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann alleging {that a} energy official in Hoshiarpur had been tasked to gather money for ‘celebration funds’ for AAP which was to be utilised in Delhi elections.
Bajwa stated the official complained to the Vigilance Bureau who in flip laid a entice and arrested the one who had made the calls for from the official. Bajwa alleged that it then got here to the fore that cash was demanded from circle places of work of the PSPCL on the behest of the ability minister.
He claimed that regardless of the letter written to the CM, nothing was carried out within the matter.
Bajwa then went on to talk about the corruption in income division by Tehsildars and Naib Tehsildars and referred to a letter written by the earlier Chief Director of Vigilance Bureau to the earlier Chief Secretary of the state concerning the actions on these people.
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“This letter talked about the names of 48 income officers together with the names of their intermediaries saying that these are corrupt officers and an inquiry must be held in opposition to them. Quite the opposite these individuals are posted at high positions within the state,” stated Bajwa.
He additional quoted a senior retired income official as saying that on a median Rs 1000 crore per thirty days is collected as bribe in income places of work throughout Punjab.
Instantly after Bajwa stopped talking, an agitated Energy Minister attacked the LoP and questioned him on the Gujarat ‘celebration’ allegations in opposition to him and the alleged rip-off which befell when he was PWD Minister within the Congress authorities and 28 officers of the division had been arrested for corruption in coal tar rip-off.
Pandemonium broke out within the Home at this stage with MLAs from treasury benches and Congress MLAs standing and shouting at one another.
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The Speaker appealed to the members to take a seat down and requested for an orderly dialogue. “Let him converse. You might have laid out all of your aspersions on him,” the Speaker instructed Bajwa with regard to energy Minister.
Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema took on Bajwa and requested him to “shut his mouth and sit down”. Cheema requested why the affiliation didn’t lodge a proper grievance within the matter. He identified that the vigilance bureau is already investigating it.
Persevering with to assault the AAP authorities, Bajwa stated the affiliation had levelled grave expenses and sought {that a} home committee or a judicial probe be ordered in it. Cupboard Minister Aman Arora stated the ability minister had knowledgeable him throughout the Delhi polls, that the vigilance bureau had lodged an FIR in reference to the demand of Rs 50,000 as celebration fund.
There was no point out of any individual or any celebration, he stated.
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Vouching for the ability minister, Arora stated that he had even sought strict motion in opposition to an individual who took cash from a rice sheller to get his work carried out. “He’s my colleague and I’m the celebration (Punjab) president. It’s my accountability to defend him,” stated Arora.
Bajwa stated if the ability minister shouldn’t be concerned, then the state authorities will take motion in opposition to these energy utility officers who wrote the letter.
Aman additional stated that the federal government was open to any inquiry into the allegations however added {that a} former director of Enforcement Directorate has gone in file saying he had been prevented by Congress ministers within the earlier authorities from conducting an inquiry into spurious liquor rip-off which claimed many lives in Amritsar. “This too must be inquired into,” he stated.
