Chandigarh : The opposition AAP held a dharna outside the Punjab Assembly complex here on Tuesday demanding immediate sacking of Irrigation Minister Rana Gurjit Singh over allegations of impropriety against him.
The AAP legislators and other leaders including the party MP Bhagwant Mann, who is also the state unit chief, demanded that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh should immediately sack his minister.The AAP leaders termed as an “eyewash” the state government’s decision to order a judicial inquiry to probe the allegations of impropriety against the Irrigation and Power Minister.
The AAP legislators held a meeting in the Vidhan Sabha complex and then they tried to march towards the residence of Amarinder Singh to stage a dharna there on the issue.
However, the police stopped them near the barricades set up just outside the Vidhan Sabha complex. They were prevented from marching towards Amarinder’s residence.
The AAP leaders, including Bhagwant Mann, Sukhpal Khaira and others were later taken into preventive custody by the police as they tried to cross the barricades.
Earlier, Khaira told reporters that the “belated inquiry ordered by Amarinder Singh into the mining scandal appears to be a tailor-made exercise to absolve the accused minister”.
“Till the time Rana Gurjit Singh continues to be a member of cabinet, the said inquiry can never be free, fair and impartial,” the AAP leader and MLA from Bholath said.