CHANDIGARH, June 22: Punjab Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today criticized the Punjab government’s decision to replace the Chief Minister with the Chief Secretary to head various development boards in the state.
Reacting to the decision Warring remarked, “the Aaam Aadmi Party has been blatantly trying to weaken the institution of the Chief Minister by replacing him with an in-service bureaucrat to head various development boards, which will make them completely unaccountable to the public”.
The PCC president asserted that no excuse can justify replacing the Chief Minister with the Chief Secretary. “Where all will this stop?” he asked, while referring to undermining and eroding the authority of the constitutional position of the Chief Minister who is the constitutional head of the government and is always accountable and answerable to the legislature and people unlike a bureaucrat.
“Being in opposition we do have numerous differences with the Chief Minister on various issues, but we do not approve undermining and taking away his authority”, the PCC president noted, while pointing out, “after all, he is the elected head of the government, chosen by people of Punjab, while the Chief Secretary is only “an appointed official” by the Chief Minister.
