Punjab’spolitics appears to be primed for upheaval. On one hand, some bureaucrats inPunjab government are attempting to destabilise the state government headed byCaptain Amarinder Singh. And on the other hand, there is internal fighting inthe Congress party.
Someleaders of Congress party are against their own Chief Minister.
AfterNavjot Singh Sidhu, ex-Minister and Congress MLA, now two other Congress MPs - RavneetSingh Bittu and Partap Singh Bajwa- are openly closing in on Captain AmarinderSingh in the sacrilege case.
Sourcesinform that some bureaucrats in Punjab, for their selfish interests, areforwarding documents, which go against the current government in Punjab, to thecentral agency.
“Wehave confirmed information that in the last few days, one senior officer metwith officials from central agencies ED and DRI in Delhi. And this is the sameofficer who had been attempting to deliver some documents of Punjab governmentto the central government for a long time,” said sources.
Heis an ambitious officer, but unable to fulfill his ambitions- to get some primepost, and now he plans to destabilise the government, said sources further.
Thisis not the first time when some officer has attempted to destabilisegovernment.
Beforethis incident, a big group of bureaucrats whose interests (including sought-afterpostings) were not being fulfilled had decided to go against the government andthe upright lobby of the officers.
Electionsare impending –Vidhan Sabha elections are in March 2022 which leaves eight tonine months. If COVID situation improves, then Code of Conduct is expected tobe implemented in November or December.
Inthis scenario, some people look forward to feed two birds with one scone–first, Destabilise the state government, and second, seek favours from BJPgovernment.
EDalready has a pending case against Captain Amarinder Singh’s son Raninder Singhin which Raninder Singh has been summoned many a times.
Further,alcohol poisoning case is also lying pending with ED as earlier the case waswith Punjab government but later it was forwarded to Delhi.
Allin all, there are many cases against Punjab government with the centralgovernment. Also, Narendra Modi-led BJP government has a history of usingcentral agencies against their political rivals.
However,Punjab was never treated the same way because Punjab is a border state andModi-led-BJP govt does not want to destabilise it.
Further,Captain Amarinder Singh is known as a nationalist leader, and Punjab has a riskof terrorism getting revived. Not to mention, that Modi and Captain share goodrelations.
But,elections are looming and the possibility of the central government usingcentral agencies against political rivals is high, especially when a bureaucratin the state forwards some documents which may be used against the CaptainAmarinder Singh government.