Akali Dal will stage a dharna at Punjab CM Amarinder Singh’s residence on June 15. (File)
Chandigarh:
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Wednesday introduced it could maintain a ”dharna” at Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s official residence on June 15 to demand that a direct dismissal of Health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu moreover establishment of a CBI probe into the alleged vaccine and “Fateh” equipment scandals.
A Fateh equipment accommodates a pulse oxymeter, a thermometer, face masks, a steamer, sanitisers, vitamin C and zinc tablets and another medicines for COVID-19 sufferers.
The SAD can even demand that land being acquired within the state for nationwide highways be achieved available on the market charge together with award of displacement compensation to farmers.
It mentioned it could be a part of farmers to protest in opposition to the “ridiculously low” compensation being supplied to them for acquisition of their land for expressway tasks in case the federal government didn’t amend this coverage and supply compensation to farmers in line with the coverage of the erstwhile SAD-BJP authorities.
Party spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema mentioned SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal would lead the symbolic ”dharna” on the residence of the chief minister and it could be attended by the get together’s senior management together with core committee and Political Affairs Committee members, legislators, former legislators, constituency incharge, district presidents and youth workplace bearers.
Mr Cheema mentioned the “vaccine scam” in addition to “Fateh kit scam” had shaken the conscience of Punjabis who had been shocked that an elected authorities and its members had been cashing in on their distress in the course of the time of pandemic.
“Though the Congress government has admitted its fault in the vaccine scam whereby it sold vaccines to private hospitals at huge margins and in turn allowed the latter to charge steep premiums, no action has been taken against anyone. “Instead of dismissing the Health minister, Capt Amarinder Singh is shielding him and even making an attempt to silence the opposition by registering circumstances in opposition to senior Akali leaders for holding a peaceable and democratic protest to demand justice within the case,” Mr Cheema said in a statement.
He said the voice of the SAD could not be suppressed by such high-handed tactics and that it would intensify its agitation further in case those guilty for the scam were not booked and punished.
Mr Cheema said Mr Badal had also “uncovered the Fateh equipment rip-off underneath which medical kits which had been to be equipped to Covid sufferers had been jacked up repeatedly from Rs 800 to Rs 1,400 per equipment” by inviting one tender after another despite the fact the first tender was valid for a six-month period.
He said it was condemnable that even in this case the chief minister had refused to take any action despite the fact that it was conclusively proved that the tender was awarded at inflated rates to a company, Grandway, “which didn’t also have a medical license.”
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