Don’t attack DGP, write to me if you have any grudge: Capt

CHANDIGARH: Taking strong exception to his attack on the integrity and fairness of the state police chief, chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked Congress MP Pratap Singh Bajwa to write to him or to the party high command in Delhi if he had any grudge or complaint against the state government.

Responding to Bajwa’s letter to DGP Dinkar Gupta word by word, the chief minister said, “If the state government had to take any vindictive action, it would not have waited for the Centre to provide him security. Have we not tolerated his criticism of the state government all this time?” Amarinder said in a press statement.

Making it clear that withdrawal of the state security to the Congress MP was his decision, as home minister, based on the intelligence inputs from the Punjab Police, he termed Bajwa’s personal attack on the DGP as not only misplaced but also against the culture and ethos of the Congress. “If he (Bajwa) does not have confidence in me or my government, why has he not approached the party high command?” he said.

Had my government been vindictive, it wouldn’t have waited for the Centre to provide him security. Have we not tolerated his criticism of Punjab govt all this time? CAPT AMARINDER SINGH, CM

Capt said if Bajwa considered personal security as a prestige symbol, which seemed to be the case, his ego should be satisfied by the fact that he had a security posse of more than 25 CISF personnel.

The chief minister further claimed that by looking at this whole affair with his own myopic vision, the Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP had once again shown lack of political maturity.