NO POKING NOSE INTO OTHERS’ MATTERS
Congress’ Faridkot MP Mohammad Sadique came with an advice for party workers asking them to stay focused on their own work and not poke their nose into other’s matters. “Politics has changed. These days, we are less concerned about our own matters but more about others’,” the folk singer-turned-politician told the party office-bearers and leaders in the presence of Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, cabinet minister Balbir Singh Sidhu who also nodded in agreement. The party leaders were in Chandigarh a few days back to mark the party’s victory in the Jalalabad bypoll held in October. president, Gurpal Singh Jagatpura, took potshots at his own government. “In the next assembly polls, (Congress) MLAS will be elected unanimously in Punjab as unprecedented development works are going on in every village. Grants have been showered in the last three years. Even SHOS (station house officers) are not working against the wishes of the Congress leaders. So, we should not talk against the government. No one should be nervous. All officers are here for us only. Also, (Congress) sarpnaches will be elected unanimously,” he said in a sarcastic tone. The mic was snatched from him by the stage secretary. The video of the speech that came as an embarrassment to the minister and the MLA went viral on social media.
Summit at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Mohali, extra cautious police personnel were keeping tabs on the enclosure designated for mediapersons. The breach took place when a Derabassi man walked up to the CM with a complaint by sneaking in through the media enclosure. Next day, the security was upped to the extent that journalists were frisked from top to toe. Even their wallets and key chains were checked thoroughly. This didn’t end here. A team of cops was deputed around the enclosure to keep an eye on their every movement. The drill was repeated last week during a lecture at the same venue organised in the memory of former Punjab director general of police (DGP) KPS Gill. (archaeology and museums) Ashok Khemka objected to the presence of Jagdish Chopra, a former political adviser to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, in the meeting. In a note, the officer wrote: “Jagdish Chopra was present and actively took part in the meeting. It is however not known in what capacity (he participated in the meeting). His presence in the official meetings violated the oath of secrecy of public servants.” director, the additional chief secretary and the minister. In fact, amongst those who attended a meeting on
October 26, 2017, at the CMS residence with reference to a contempt petition was a person who deals in properties in Gurgaon,” Khemka wrote in an apparent reference to a former aide of Khattar.
the hope of becoming a minister.