SHERRY’S POWER GAME
“Eh mehkama CM saab kol hai, je mere kol hunda, main taan puchann chaka deniyaan si” (The (excise) department is with the CM. If it was with me, I would have taught the company a lesson,” he said in the Vidhan Sabha. The CM, with 40 departments to handle, cannot check details of all departments, he had said at a press conference in June. Local bodies department headed by Sidhu, last week charge-sheeted three commissioners (two IAS and one PCS) posted with the local civic bodies department (alognwith four SEs). To proceed further in the case of commissioners, the cases will go to the CM for approval. Answering a query in Wednesday’s press conference, Sidhu accepted that the CM had asked him to go slow. “He (the CM) conveyed this to me through a friend,” he said, refusing to elaborate. Last month, Sidhu’s public hearing to suspended superintendent engineers of the local bodies department caused a flutter in officials circles, as rules do not mention such a hearing.