CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today questioned the legality of the proposed ‘advisory committee’ being constituted by the Punjab government to be headed by a Chairman, who may eventually end up as the defacto Chief Minister of the state.
In a statement issued here today, Warring said, it amounted to creating an extra-constitutional authority without any accountability that will undermine the constitutional mandate of an elected government and its cabinet.
The PCC president asked the government to specify and spell out the motive and purpose behind this committee. “Or you want to outsource the governance to an adhoc committee without any legal or constitutional mandate” he told the government.
He maintained that in the past the governments have set up advisory committees, but these were with specific and limited period and purpose and did not have overarching control and authority like the one that is being proposed to be set up by the government.
“If adhoc advisory committee has to be appointed, what is Cabinet there for? Or AAP wants to outsource governance?” he asked, while adding, there are strong apprehensions among people that the elected government will be made subordinate and subservient to the proposed ‘advisory committee’, which cannot be acceptable in a constitutional democracy.
