Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday alleged that the nephew of his predecessor Charanjit Singh Channi had demanded Rs 2 crore from a cricketer to safe him a authorities job beneath the sports activities quota.
IMAGE: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann (third from left) attends the Farewell dinner organised in Amritsar, May 22, 2023. Photograph: ANI Photo
Mann made the declare whereas addressing a gathering after laying basis stones for establishing tehsil complexes at Dirba and Cheema in Sangrur.
Channi, nevertheless, rejected Mann’s allegations and slammed the chief minister for spreading canards in opposition to him.
During his tackle, Mann mentioned his authorities has given jobs to greater than 29,000 youths fully on advantage since assuming workplace.
Mann mentioned he met a Punjab cricketer in Dharamshala when he was in Himachal Pradesh to look at an Indian Premier League match final week.
“I cannot reveal his title. He performs in Punjab’s workforce,” mentioned Mann.
The chief minister claimed the cricketer informed him that he had utilized for a authorities job beneath the sports activities quota.
When Amarinder Singh was the chief minister, the cricketer was informed that he would get the job, mentioned Mann.
Mann claimed that the cricketer and his father then met Channi — who changed Singh as chief minister — and he informed them to satisfy his nephew.
The cricketer informed Mann that he met Channi’s nephew, who assured him that he would get a job however raised a requirement for “two”, the Punjab chief minister claimed.
“The participant took Rs 2 lakh to Channi’s nephew, who abused him and mentioned ‘two’ means Rs 2 crore.”
“They (Channi) name themselves poor. For them ‘two’ means Rs 2 crore, not Rs 2 lakh,” the Aam Aadmi Party chief mentioned.
Later, talking to reporters, Channi hit out at Mann for levelling critical allegations in opposition to him and rubbished the claims.
The Congress chief mentioned he by no means took cash for jobs or transfers by his nephew.
Meanwhile, Mann mentioned the earlier regimes in Punjab had “mercilessly plundered” the state as a consequence of which it had lagged behind in progress.
The state authorities will get better each single penny from “these corrupt leaders who robbed the state”, Mann asserted.
Slamming the Centre for imposing a worth lower on shrivelled and damaged wheat grains, Mann mentioned filling the nationwide meals pool shouldn’t be attainable with out the hardworking and resilient farmers of Punjab.
He mentioned each single penny of worth lower imposed on farmers might be “extracted” from the Centre with curiosity when it seeks provide of wheat and paddy for the central pool.
Mann additionally accused the Centre of being detached in the direction of Punjab and its farmers and mentioned such remedy can’t be tolerated.
The chief minister additional slammed the Union authorities for “unnecessarily harassing” the state by depriving it of its respectable share.
Punjab’s share of Rs 3,000 crore beneath the Rural Development Fund (RDF) continues to be pending with the Union authorities, he mentioned.
“RDF is our proper,” Mann asserted.
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