CHANDIGARH – Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab for taking unnecessary confrontation with the Governor.
“The AAP government has made an issue of false prestige, otherwise why should there be any problem in replying to some queries raised by the Governor, which he is constitutionally entitled to”, the PCC president said in a statement here today.
Warring reiterated his party’s stand that it will not hesitate or desist from pointing out the government’s faults. He said, when the state government should be busy with pressing priorities like law and order, precarious financial situation, unemployment, farmers’ suicides etc, it has unnecessarily opened a front against the Governor.
The PCC president maintained that this was being done by the AAP government to divert public attention from its failures as, at the very first instance there was no point in bringing in a vote of confidence motion when nobody had challenged their majority.
Warring said, the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann should act wisely and sagaciously and avoid any further confrontation with the office of the Governor.
He observed, it was natural for the Governor to seek clarity on the agenda, since the AAP government had remained vague and ambiguous. “On the one hand the government says it will approach the Supreme Court of India against cancellation of the special session and on the other hand it is trying to convene another session with a hidden agenda”, he remarked.
The PCC president also referred to the Governor’s letter to the Chief Minister where he had read out the relevant articles of the constitution to him.
“This is something unprecedented for which the AAP government is squarely responsible”, he said, while telling the government, “you like it or not, Governor is the constitutional head of the state and you are responsible to him and owe it to him to provide all the relevant information he asks for”.
