Amid Resignation Row, Most sensible Punjab Govt Attorney Assaults Navjot Sidhu
APS Deol (proper) was once appointed after the publish fell vacant following Atul Nanda’s resignation (Report)
Chandigarh:
Punjab Recommend Basic APS Deol has hit again at Congress chief Navjot Sidhu – who has demanded he surrender for representing two accused law enforcement officials within the 2015 sacrilege and police firing case.
Mr Deol slammed the ex cricketer for “repeated utterances (that) search to derail the earnest efforts of the state to verify justice within the ‘medicine topic’ and the ‘sacrilege circumstances'”.
He additionally accused Mr Sidhu – whose assaults on his personal executive augur unwell forward of subsequent 12 months’s Meeting election – of “spreading incorrect information to achieve a political merit over his political colleagues”.
“There’s a concerted strive through vested pursuits to malign the functioning of the Congress party in view of the approaching elections in Punjab for his or her egocentric political acquire, through politicizing the constitutional administrative center of the Recommend Basic of Punjab,” Mr Deol wrote in a short lived commentary issued Saturday morning.
A senior suggest of the Punjab and Haryana Top Court docket, APS Deol was once appointed in September after Atul Nanda resigned, who surrender after the go out of Amarinder Singh as Punjab Leader Minister.
The day before today Mr Sidhu instructed newshounds he would withdraw his resignation as leader of the Congress’ Punjab unit – he surrender in September, a transfer that stunned the Congress after it supported him in his sour feud Amarinder Singh – however provided that Leader Minister Charanjit Channi approved APS Deol’s resignation.
“I’ve taken again my resignation… When a brand new Recommend Basic is appointed, I can take price,” he declared, throwing down a recent ultimatum.
On Tuesday, assets mentioned Mr Channi refused to just accept Mr Deol’s resignation – a transfer observed as a company sign to Mr Sidhu that it the Leader Minister, and now not the MLA, who was once accountable for the federal government.
A supply instructed TTN “Mr Sidhu’s speech attacking the state executive is claimed to be the rationale” and, predictably, that infuriated Mr Sidhu much more.
“How can a legal professional who were given bail for Sumedh Saini be Recommend Basic and an individual like IPS Sahota (Punjab’s police leader, Iqbal Singh Sahota was once the pinnacle of a SIT, shaped through the then Akali Dal executive, that investigated the sacrilege case) be the DGP,” he fumed the day past.
Mr Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress leader in a huff over Mr Deol and Mr Sahota’s appointments, exacerbating the party’s management disaster in a state that votes subsequent 12 months.
The Congress has already misplaced Amarinder Singh – as Leader Minister and a party chief, and should now face him as an influential rival flesh presser – after his spat with Mr Sidhu.
Mr Sidhu’s elevation was once supposed to unravel the infighting, however that transfer hasn’t labored as but, with the previous India cricket big name taking relentless potshots at his party and Leader Minister Channi.
