“Corruption Is Corruption”: Punjab Chief Minister Tells Congress MP

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh asserted, “corruption is corruption, in any and every kind”.

Chandigarh:

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday turned down Partap Singh Bajwa’s contention that there was no contrast in between the supposed scholarship fraud and the bitumen fraud, in which the Congress MP’s name had actually figured 15 years earlier.

The primary minister asserted, “corruption is corruption, in any and every kind”.

On Sunday, Rajya Sabha MP Bajwa had actually declared that there was no contrast in between the supposed multi-crore post-matric SC scholarship fraud and the bitumen fraud.

The bitumen fraud claims versus Mr Bajwa, then PWD minister in his cabinet in his previous term, were as severe as those being levelled now in the scholarship fraud, the chief minister stated in a declaration.

Mr Singh stated had he picked to act as irresponsibly then as Mr Bajwa was anticipating him to do now, he would have sacked the then minister all those years earlier on the basis of unverified charges without a reasonable probe.

Mr Bajwa had actually dealt with claims as PWD (public works department) minister in between 2002 and 2007, associating with abnormalities in the purchase of bitumen worth crore of rupees.

He had likewise stated that social justice minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot was charged by his department’s own officer Additional Chief Secretary Kripa Shankar Saroj of being associated with the fraud in a query.

Mr Singh stated he had actually chosen to designate a comprehensive examination into the supposed scholarship fraud to the chief secretary as there was plainly a disagreement in between the worried minister and the Social Welfare Department’s extra chief secretary, whose internal report had actually ended up being the basis of the claims versus the minister.

The primary minister likewise knocked Rajya Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Dullo for supporting the need for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the supposed fraud without waiting on the findings of the CS query.

This absence of faith revealed by both the MPs in their own celebration federal government revealed their “malafide intent”, he stated, blasting Mr Bajwa and Mr Dullo for their continued and consistent “anti-party” actions.

A probe by Additional Chief Secretary Kripa Shankar Saroj into the post-matric scholarship plan for Scheduled Caste trainees has actually found a Rs 55.71-crore fraud.

Mr Saroj sent a report to the chief secretary in which he arraigned Punjab minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot and some authorities for supposedly triggering a loss of Rs 55 crore to the state exchequer in the circulation of scholarship quantities.

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