Chandigarh – Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today criticized Raghav Chadha’s appointment as Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the State Government.
“What is Chadha’s experience to be the super-CM over Bhagwant Mann?” he asked in a strongly worded statement, adding, “I feel sad that Punjab, the land of all time great emperor Maharaja Ranjit Singh will now be ruled over by a rank outsider with no experience in governance and that too when we already have a democratically elected government here”.
“It reminds of the Raj days when the British Emperor would appoint a Viceroy in India to watch and safeguard his own interests”, he remarked, while adding, “Chadha is the new Viceroy appointed by the Emperor Arvind Kejriwal with Bhagwant Mann acting as an obedient and subservient vassal”.
He said, the way AAP was abusing Punjab resources to promote itself in states like Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat was so much similar to the way the British were exploiting Indian resources in Britain.
The PCC president alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party leadership was treating Punjab like the colonial masters during the Raj treated India. “What is Chadha’s locus standi to head an advisory committee that will advise the Punjab government?” he asked, while adding, when there is an elected government with a Chief Minister and a cabinet answerable to the legislature, what is the point in constituting extra-constitutional bodies with extra-constitutional authorities.
“Chadha was already the de facto Chief Minister of Punjab, now he has been vested with ‘legal’ authority that too illegally and unconstitutionally”, Warring said, while pointing out, this is unprecedented in the history of Punjab and may be even the rest of the country.
He said, the Congress party stood vindicated as it had been saying it from day one that Bhagwant Mann will just be like a rubber stamp and the real authority will be wielded by Kejriwal and he is doing it now through Chadha. “We thought that the AAP leadership would have learnt its lesson well in Sangrur, but they have clearly not and had they learnt any lessons, they wouldn’t have appointed an outsider with no experience to virtually head the state government and push the Chief Minister and his cabinet to the margins”, he said.
