Chandigarh: Accusing Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit of acting under pressure from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi staged a ‘dharna’ against the former to withdraw his assent to a bill to regularize 36,000 contractual employees. ‘ Threatened to give
Channi said he along with his ministers had already met the governor on the issue while the chief secretary had also met him twice.
“But the governor has withheld the file (related to the bill) due to some political reasons,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that he and his ministers will once again meet the Governor on Monday.
“If he doesn’t do that (clean the file), it is politics,” he said. If we have to hold dharna we will do it but we have to regularize the employees. A law has been made.’
“It is their responsibility to clear the file. At first I thought she was busy somewhere. But as I have already met him and CS (Chief Secretary) went to meet him, now it is politics because there is pressure from BJP, he should not do politics.
Channi, who had met the governor early last month and raised the issue of 12 bills requiring his assent to regularization bills, said it is a question of the future of many employees who are anxiously waiting for a day. when their services would be terminated. Regular.
The Chief Minister’s statement comes at a time when his government is facing criticism for not fulfilling its promise to regularize contractual employees ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections.
Earlier in November last year, the state assembly had passed the ‘Punjab Protection and Contractual Employees Regularization Bill-2021’ to regularize 36,000 employees working on contract or ad hoc, temporary or daily basis in various government departments.
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