BJP raises harassment row, AAP welcomes Dalit face
In first reactions to Congress naming Charanjit Singh Channi the following Punjab leader minister, BJP on Sunday raked up an argument when an IAS officer in 2018 had alleged that he had despatched her an irrelevant textual content. Whilst major opposition Aam Aadmi Party welcomed the appointment of Channi, a Dalit, to the highest submit, the Shiromani Akali Dal didn’t factor any observation.
BJP IT division head Amit Malviya, in a tweet mentioned, “Congress’s CM select Charanjit Channi faces motion in a 3-year-old MeToo case. He had allegedly despatched an irrelevant textual content to a girl IAS officer in 2018. It used to be lined up however the case resurfaced when Punjab Girls’s Fee despatched understand. Smartly performed, Rahul.”
The problem had resurfaced in Would possibly this 12 months when Punjab Girls’s Fee chairperson Manisha Gulati threatened to move on a starvation strike if the state executive did not apprise her inside of per week of its stand at the “irrelevant textual content” message allegedly despatched via Channi, who used to be then a minister within the Capt Amarinder Singh executive. Gulati had mentioned she had written to the manager secretary in the hunt for the federal government’s motion taken file.
The AAP congratulated Channi on being named new Punjab CM and mentioned that hopes that he “will satisfy the entire guarantees made via the Congress in 2017, as party has now not been in a position to ship on a unmarried promise within the closing four-and-a-half years”.
Whilst SAD didn’t react formally, party leader Sukhbir Singh Badal had on Saturday mentioned that fluctuate of guard received’t save Congress.
