Lashing out at the “misplaced priorities” of the Congress government in the state, former Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday asked the Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi why he had not ordered a probe into the ‘cash-for-transfers’ allegations reportedly made by cabinet minister Rana Gurjit Singh against home minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.
Taking a dig at the CM’s “alertness and promptness” in ordering a probe into the circumstances leading to the leaking of selective pages of a letter written by a senior police officer to the Director-General of Police, Amarinder said, he (the CM) should have shown same promptness when one of his ministerial colleagues had openly leveled serious charges of corruption in the appointment of the senior superintendents of police (SSPs) and deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) during a Cabinet meeting recently.
The Punjab Lok Congress chief said he understood the despair and frustration of this government as it was getting exposed with every passing day with every fake promise and announcement it made. “You (Channi) would always ask for just two days of authority to put everyone behind the bars”, he reminded the CM and some of his ministerial colleagues, while asking, “what happened now, as you are already there for about three months and have not arrested a single person so far”.
During a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi last week, Randhawa and Rana Gurjeet Singh reportedly had an argument over allegations of kickbacks for the posting of SSPs and DSPs in the state.