No authority, SAD halqa incharge unveils projects

SAD’s Muktsar halqa incharge Kanwarjit Singh (third from left) inaugurates a project at Khokhar village in Muktsar. Tribune photo

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Tribune News Service

Muktsar, July 17

Kanwarjit Singh ‘Rozy Barkandi’, SAD’s Muktsar halqa incharge, has been inaugurating development projects in the constituency in his name.

The constituency incharge is not a constitutional post and the ruling SAD has given this post mostly to leaders who lost the Assembly elections.

According to the rules, an elected representative or some officer of the state government can lay the foundation stone or inaugurate a project.

Rozy, who is a close aide of SAD chief-cum-Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, recently inaugurated twp projects one at Khokhar village and a library at Haraj village. The village residents said the projects were funded by the state government, but the name of Rozy was written on the inaugural stones.

Jagjit Singh ‘Honey Fattanwala’, a Congress leader from Muktsar, said, “This is a clear case of misusing the government funds. I visited Khokhar village yesterday where the SAD’s Muktsar constituency incharge had inaugurated an underground water pipeline project on July 10.”

Earlier, the name of a SAD leader addressed as halqa incharge had appeared on the cards issued by the Ferozepur district administration for the Martyrs Day function at Hussainiwala.

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also the patron of SAD, had said in the Vidhan Sabha that there was no post of ‘halqa’ incharge in the SAD’s constitution.

Courtesy: The Tribune