Banwari Lal Purohit wrote to CM Mann two days after he urged him to give his consent to an amendment that seeks to end the monopoly of the Badal family over telecast of sacred Gurbani from Golden Temple.
In a letter to the Governor, Mann said that one particular television channel owned by a political family has monopolised telecast of Gurbani from the Golden Temple and has been making profits from it.
Pointing out that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) failed to register a case against Kataruchak, the BJP leader asked how then can it claim that the victim has retracted his statement.
Not furnishing the information sought by him would be a dereliction of the Constitutional duty which is imposed on the chief minister in terms of Article 167 (b), the governor contended in a letter addressed to the Mann.
When asked about the action being taken against Kataruchak, the Governor on Thursday said the minister has committed a heinous crime and he has no right to continue in the Cabinet.
The Punjab government has constituted a three-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe into the allegations of sexual misconduct against the minister.
Bhagwant Mann directed officers to accelerate ‘enforcement, de-addiction and prevention’ to make the state drug-free.
