The statement by Punjab Advocate General APS Deol accusing PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu of “obstructing the functioning of the government” has put the Punjab Congress in another round of power struggle with Sidhu supporters in the government. AG Senior minister and Sidhu’s closest friend Pargat Singh while addressing media persons in Jalandhar said that it is wrong on Deol’s part to make such a statement against the party president.
Pargat tried to play down the differences over the ongoing dispute between Sidhu and Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. “Problems will be resolved soon,” he said. Meanwhile, even Channi, in a candid reaction to Sidhu’s targeting of his government on issues of sacrilege and drug trafficking, on Saturday said, “I may be poor but not weak” and added that Matters will be resolved.
Addressing a gathering at Chamkaur Sahib, Channi said that action would be taken against all those responsible for the sacrilege incidents of 2015 as their investigation by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Punjab Police is fast and on track. “I may be poor, I may be from a poor family but I am not weak…. All issues will be resolved,” said Channi, who replaced Amarinder Singh as Punjab chief minister.
In a press conference on Friday, Sidhu had questioned the Channi-led state government over the steps taken to bring justice in cases of sacrilege and drug trafficking of the Guru Granth Sahib.
Party sources said that the Sidhu camp believes that the statement issued by Deol was done at the behest of the Chief Minister. “It is very difficult to accept that he himself would have issued the statement. This is an attempt to shoot Sidhu from the shoulders of the AG,” remarked a leader of the Sidhu camp.
The government, on its part, has so far chosen to remain silent on the statement issued by Deol against Sidhu.
Meanwhile, Channi continued to defend his side on the issue of sacrilege. “It (profanity) is the issue of my guru and the issue of the soul of Punjab.”
On the issue of drugs, Channi said that all the culprits who are pushing the youth of the state towards drugs will not be spared at any cost. He said that after the release of the report on the drug mafia, all the big sharks involved in it will be exposed.
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