PTI
Chandigarh, May 20
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday hit out at the BJP apparently over the problem of the Centre’s ordinance on transfer of bureaucrats in Delhi, alleging the complete social gathering “might have been hanged” if there was a provision for punishment in the Constitution for “murderers of democracy”.
His remarks got here a day after the Centre promulgated the ordinance to create a National Capital Civil Service Authority for transfer of IAS and DANICS cadre officers and disciplinary proceedings towards them.
This got here every week after the Supreme Court handed over the management of companies, excluding these associated to police, public order and land, to the elected authorities in Delhi.
In a tweet in Hindi, Mann mentioned, “If there was a provision for punishment for the murderers of democracy in the Indian Constitution, then the complete BJP might have been hanged…”
The tweet was seen as an assault on the Centre over the problem.
In one other tweet in Punjabi, he mentioned, “Let the nation be run by 30-31 governors and a first-rate minister… What is the use of spending crores (of rupees) on elections?”
Earlier, Aam Aadmi Party Punjab chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang additionally attacked the Centre, dubbing the ordinance transfer as “sheer defiance” of the Supreme Court order.
