Governance has collapsed under Amarinder: Chugh

Chandigarh: BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh said here today that infighting in the Punjab Congress has cost the state heavily in terms of development and its fight against Covid-19.

In a statement, Chugh slammed Chief Minister Amarinder Singh for devoting all his energies to fighting the dissidents in the party at the cost of improving the administration.

“Every other day a senior Congress leader is being summoned to Delhi even as all cabinet ministers are on tenterhooks in the face of uncertainty about their future”, he said adding that no minister has been attending office for the last many weeks leaving the governance paralysed.

Chugh said the ongoing fight between Chief Minister's chief principal secretary and his cabinet colleagues was a serious reflection on the paralysed working of the government and the lack of faith in the senior bureaucrats. Earlier, a former chief secretary was humiliated in a cabinet meeting for opposing the working of the liquor mafia.

Chugh also took exception to the manner Punjab Advocate General Atul Nanda has been condemning the state bureaucracy for not letting his office run. He said Nanda's wife resignation from the post of additional advocate general was a serious reflection on the working of the Amarinder government.

"It seems the left hand in the government does not what the right hand is doing and this directionless government has resulted in anguish and anger in all sections of society in Punjab, It was because of the pathetic state of affairs that Punjab has suffered so heavily in the second wave of Covid and there is no hope that the state was prepared to cope with the third wave which is ringing alarming bells in the state," Chugh added.