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Chandigarh, July 7
The Punjab Congress disciplinary committee today decided to issue a show- cause notice to Bholath legislator Sukhpal Singh Khaira for alleging that the incumbent state leadership seemed to be hand in glove with the Akalis even as legislature party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal said “strict” disciplinary action would be taken against him.
Party disciplinary committee chairman G K Chatrath, when contacted by TNS, said he had received a complaint against Khaira from the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader. “I have decided to issue a show-cause notice to Khaira asking him to explain why disciplinary action should not be taken against him”, he said.
Chatrath said he was also writing to the party high command to emphasise the need for action against any leader violating party discipline. “We are taken aback by Khaira’s statement since he is not only a legislator but also the district Congress chief of Kapurthala”.
Meanwhile, Bhattal claimed that indiscipline of the sort shown by Khaira would not be tolerated. She said action would be taken against the legislator soon.
The CLP leader also claimed it was for the people to understand as to whose interests the Bholath legislator was guarding by making such allegations when the party organisational elections were under way. Bhattal said the legislator had been airing his views on various subjects earlier also and had been pulled up for the same. “He had given an assurance that he would be careful in future but now it seems he is helping the Akalis by weakening the Congress through his statements”.
The CLP leader claimed Khaira had not functioned appropriately as Kapurthala district party president. “In last three years he has not held any conference or agitation in his district. There is also not a single instance when he asked the Punjab Congress for help on any issue”, she added.
Khaira, however, is in no mood to relent. He told TNS today that if speaking on behalf of Congress workers was disobedience, he was ready to face any stringent action. He said he had been arrested thrice for taking up people’s issues in the past three years but not once did the CLP leader or Pradesh Congress president Mohinder Singh Kaypee care to meet him in jail.
The legislator said he left it to the party workers of his district and the people of Punjab to judge his performance, adding he had been vocal in the Assembly and outside as far as the SAD-BJP government’s “takeover” of transport, the cable network and bulk liquor trade was concerned.
The Punjab Congress disciplinary committee today decided to issue a show- cause notice to Bholath legislator Sukhpal Singh Khaira for alleging that the incumbent state leadership seemed to be hand in glove with the Akalis even as legislature party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal said “strict” disciplinary action would be taken against him.
Party disciplinary committee chairman G K Chatrath, when contacted by TNS, said he had received a complaint against Khaira from the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader. “I have decided to issue a show-cause notice to Khaira asking him to explain why disciplinary action should not be taken against him”, he said.
Chatrath said he was also writing to the party high command to emphasise the need for action against any leader violating party discipline. “We are taken aback by Khaira’s statement since he is not only a legislator but also the district Congress chief of Kapurthala”.
Meanwhile, Bhattal claimed that indiscipline of the sort shown by Khaira would not be tolerated. She said action would be taken against the legislator soon.
The CLP leader also claimed it was for the people to understand as to whose interests the Bholath legislator was guarding by making such allegations when the party organisational elections were under way. Bhattal said the legislator had been airing his views on various subjects earlier also and had been pulled up for the same. “He had given an assurance that he would be careful in future but now it seems he is helping the Akalis by weakening the Congress through his statements”.
The CLP leader claimed Khaira had not functioned appropriately as Kapurthala district party president. “In last three years he has not held any conference or agitation in his district. There is also not a single instance when he asked the Punjab Congress for help on any issue”, she added.
Khaira, however, is in no mood to relent. He told TNS today that if speaking on behalf of Congress workers was disobedience, he was ready to face any stringent action. He said he had been arrested thrice for taking up people’s issues in the past three years but not once did the CLP leader or Pradesh Congress president Mohinder Singh Kaypee care to meet him in jail.
The legislator said he left it to the party workers of his district and the people of Punjab to judge his performance, adding he had been vocal in the Assembly and outside as far as the SAD-BJP government’s “takeover” of transport, the cable network and bulk liquor trade was concerned.
