Days after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann oversaw a much publicized government campaign to take over 2,828 acres of illegally encroached prime land worth Rs 350 crore in Mohali, the delay in removal of encroachments by an entity allegedly owned But the controversy has started. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Mittal over a Panchayat land.
Mittal-owned Phagwara-based Lovely Professional University (LPU) has reportedly taken over a government plot, even as the rural development and panchayat department is reportedly “slow-going” on vacating the land. was”.
Congress has targeted the AAP government on this issue.
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder Singh Raja Waring questioned CM Mann and Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal in a tweet.
“Please look at this. @BhagwantMann sir, is your anti-encroachment campaign only for common people or your political opponents? Asha minister Dhaliwal sahib applies the same scale here. Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion,” Warring tweeted quoting a report in the Tribune.
Please check it out. @Bhagwant Mann Sir, is your anti-encroachment campaign only for common people or for your political opponents?
ASHA Minister Dhaliwal sahib applies the same parameter here as well.
“Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion” pic.twitter.com/JYLqYW3GVi— Amarinder Singh Raja Waring (@RajaBar_INC) 1 August 2022
Congress MLA from Punjab Sukhpal Singh Khaira openly challenged Mann to take back the panchayat land in Hardaspura village of Phagwara.
“It will be a litmus test for Mann and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal about the sincerity and authenticity of the Punjab government’s initiative to vacate panchayat land in villages,” Khaira said.
I dare @Bhagwant Mann And his minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal will evict LPU from illegal possession of panchayat land of Hardaspura in Phagwara. let’s see what happens @Arvind Kejriwal Is the owner of Lovely University against his Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Mittal or will he remain a mute spectator? pic.twitter.com/9SZl1zJyZy
— Sukhpal Singh Khaira (@sukhpalkhaira) 1 August 2022
Khaira submitted a letter from the Deputy Director of Rural Development, Punjab instructing the concerned DDPOs to vacate the land at the earliest.
He termed the government drive to remove the encroachment as a sham and said it was aimed only at campaigning for the government, while his allies violate the norms.
“Mann and Kejriwal should get the land from Mittal at the earliest to demonstrate the fairness of the government with respect to the panchayat land,” Khaira said.
Meanwhile, troubled by the criticism, the Mann government has reportedly asked the local authorities to proceed legally to vacate the land.
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