Punjab News Punjab ministers prefer electioneering to official work

Lily

B.R
Staff member
Chandigarh April 9:

Punjab Ministers have gone all out in their constituencies to woo voters. As the countdown to the State Assembly election has already started, the Ministers prefer to stay in their constituencies, ignoring official work.

Out of the five working days in a week, the Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries are now hardly seen in their offices at Punjab Civil Secretariat. With the motive of not wasting any moment to come in close contact with the people, the Ministers have turned their head and ears towards their electorate and back towards the office. With this, the bureaucrats have apparently become the bosses, administering all important work. However, the final approval comes from the “real boss”—the ministers.

Going by the trend the people’s “elected representatives” are following as of now, it appears that they are coming only for imperative meetings. The ministers usually stay in their home constituencies during weekend, giving day next—that is Monday—a miss too. And leaving early! “Minister saab usually stays in his constituency during weekend. The possible days to meet him are Wednesday or Thursday. Usually he stays busy in meetings during these days, especially Wednesdays,” said one of the Ministers’ private staff official.

Also understanding the Minister’s responsibility to stay in constituencies, some of his personal staff ended up saying, “Hun ethe ki karna hai, oh taan zayada apne halke wich rehange” (What he got to do here now, he will stay in his constituency more often). With just less than a year left for the final showdown, the respective leaders are now going back to the people to listen to their grievances and also solving them. Along with this, they are also giving a thorough reading to their election manifesto, as they could not manage to face the people with any unfulfilled promise.

Admitted Punjab Forest and Labour Minister Tikshan Sud, “It is time for all of us to concentrate on our constituencies, frequent visits there, but not on the stake of official work. Side by side, we got to do that too.” Already in political mode, the current SAD-BJP regime could not afford any resentment among the people during the election year, that too at this point of time.

Many a times in the past, the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal virtually slapped on the ministers’ wrist for their absence from the office. However, he himself is busy in conducting various sangat darshans, to come in close contact with people and resolve their issues at the earliest.

 
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