Farmers Movement Archive

Send notice to Harsimrat to vacate ministerial bungalow: Warring to Puri

Bathinda: Keeping up the attack on SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and former Union minister Harsimrat Badal over support to the party’s former alliance partner, BJP, at the Centre despite it bringing in three contentious farm bills, Congress MLA Amrinder Singh Raja Warring has demanded that the ex-minister be made to vacate the ministerial bungalow as she no longer in the Union cabinet. While making a tweet and in a letter Union housing minister Hardeep Puri, he said that Harsimrat should be asked to shift to a place which she is entitled as an MP. “Earlier, the housing ministry had served notice to AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi to vacate official accommodation despite a serious threat to her security. A notice was also served to ex-Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia to vacate accommodation. Then why has no notice been served to Harsimrat Badal to vacate her ministerial bungalow? If no notice is served, it will be assumed that BJP is still soft towards SAD and wants reconciliation,” Warring told TOI. The Gidderbaha MLA has been in direct confrontation with the Badal couple for some time now and, in the run up to municipal elections, Sukhbir had staged a dharna against him at Gidderbaha, accusing him of misusing official machinery during polls. Three days back, a BJP leader had written a letter to the Punjab DGP, demanding action against Harsimrat following allegations of trying to create rift between members of different religions.

The Times of India

2021-03-12

Chandigarh