CHANDIGARH : Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today demanded immediate dismissal and arrest of Defence Services Welfare and Food Processing Minister Fauja Singh Sarari over a leaked video where he is heard to be allegedly planning to trap some contractors through some officials to extort money from them.
“They have not even completed six months and second minister has been caught indulging in corrupt practices and at this rate, in next two years we may see a dozen of their ministers landing in jail”, the PCC president remarked, while reacting to the audio clip that has gone viral and in which the minister is allegedly discussing a plan with his OSD to trap the contractors of the department of Food and Civil Supplies red handed to later extort money from them.
He said earlier the government dismissed the health minister and jailed him over similar allegations. “This time the matter is already in the public domain with the minister’s audio clip and let us see what action the government takes”, he remarked.
The PCC president pointed out, the government has been falsely implicating Congress leaders without any proof or evidence and has registered cases against three former ministers and put two of them behind bars.
“Now we will see what the government will do with its own minister who had the audacity to discuss money extortion plan, by trapping contractors, with his OSD”, he said, while challenging the government to prove that it practices what it preaches.
The PCC president pointed out these were not mere allegations but revelations, which need to be taken seriously.
