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Vijay Singla AAP: Punjab Health Minister Vijay Singla sacked, arrested on corruption charges. Chandigarh News – Times of India

May 24, 2022
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Bathinda: Punjab health minister Vijay Singla He was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday, hours after he was sacked by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann following corruption charges.
It has been less than two months since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) formed the government in Punjab.
Earlier in the day, Mann had recommended registration of a corruption case against Singla.

The government has accused Singla of demanding one percent commission from development works in his area and floated tenders for various works in his ministry.
Mann himself disclosed this while going live on Tuesday and said that AAP had formed the government on the issue of clean government and zero tolerance for corruption.
He said, “I knew about the minister’s corrupt acts as neither the media nor the opposition parties knew about it and I could have easily hidden it, but being a soldier of AAP’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal , I proceeded to leave them in the cabinet.”
He said this was happening for the second time in the political history of AAP as earlier in 2015, the Kejriwal government had removed a minister in Delhi on a similar charge.

Bhagwant Mann said that only the AAP government does not shy away from taking strict action against its representatives, whereas the previous governments, despite knowing about the corrupt practices of their ministers, mainly the MLAs engaged in mining, against their ministers. never dared to act.
Vijay Singla is the MLA from Mansa assembly constituency and was the only AAP candidate who got more than 1 lakh votes in the February 20 assembly elections defeating famous Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh alias Sidhu Moosewala by over 63,000 votes. Was.
Kejriwal appreciated Mann’s action
Aam Aadmi Party chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal got a lot of applause for this step of Bhagwant Mann.

Soon after Bhagwant Mann announced the sacking of his minister over corruption charges, Kejriwal tweeted that the entire nation was proud of his action.
watch Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann sacks Health Minister Vijay Singla on corruption charges