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Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann have clashed several times since the AAP-led government came to power in March. (File photo: ANI)
Bhagwant Mann had on Monday drawn a similar rebuke to the governor after he sent a letter seeking details of the selection process for the recent visit of 36 government school principals to Singapore to attend a training seminar.
A day after Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit questioned Bhagwant Mann on the selection of school principals for foreign travel, the chief minister on Tuesday said only elected representatives should take decisions and kept “selected” people away. Needed
A similar rebuke was issued to the governor on Monday after Mann sent a letter seeking details of the selection process for the recent visit of 36 government school principals to Singapore to attend a training seminar, which said that he has received complaints of “misconduct”.
Purohit had said that if Mann did not respond within a fortnight, he would seek legal advice for further course of action.
Without naming Purohit, Mann said on Monday, “Only elected people from Punjab should take decisions. Only the chosen ones should do that, not the chosen ones who unnecessarily interfere.” “In a democracy, the elected are more. Anyone can be selected,” he said at a training session for new legislators.
CM said, ‘We also know the law, we will answer them with the same law, by which they will stop us.’ The remark had triggered a tussle between the governor and the chief minister, who took over after the Aam Aadmi Party’s landslide victory in the Punjab assembly polls last year.
On Monday, Mann gave an initial reply to the Governor’s letter through a tweet.
“According to the Constitution, I and my government are answerable to three crore Punjabis and not to any governor appointed by the central government. Consider it my answer,” he tweeted in Punjabi.
Purohit had told Mann that he had “never bothered to answer” his letters in the past.
The governor listed the “illegal” appointment of the vice-chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University and the promotion of an IPS officer, who was removed for alleged misconduct, as issues on which he had earlier sought clarification.
Purohit also sought information about the appointment of Gurinderjit Singh Jawanda as the chairman of the Punjab Information and Communications and Communications Department. technology Corporation Ltd., referring to the allegations that he was named in a case of kidnapping and property grabbing.
The Punjab government had sent headmasters of 36 government schools to Singapore between February 6 and February 10.
Citing complaints received, the governor asked the CM to send details about the money spent on the exercise.
Purohit told the chief minister that the people have not elected him as per his “whims and likes” to run the state and that under the Constitution, he is “constrained” to furnish any information sought by the Raj Bhavan.
AAP MP Raghav Chadha termed Purohit’s letter as a “blatant threat” to the Punjab government.
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