AfterPunjab Government received widespread flak from all spheres over its decisionof offering jobs to two sons of MLAs on compassionate ground, MLA Fatehjung Bajwatoday declined the offer given to his son Arjun Bajwa.
TheMLA has officially given in writing that he is refusing this job offer and hisson does not require it.
ThePunjab cabinet offered government jobs to sons of two Congress MLAs, FatehjungBajwa and Rakesh Pandey on compassionate grounds, after which Punjab youth aswell as some Congress leaders criticized this decision of the CM-led-cabinet.
Theoffering of jobs to two MLAs sons emerged as new political controversy and evensome Punjab Congress leaders took the matter to party high command demandingthat it should be taken back immediately.
SunilJakhar along with at least five ministers- Charanjit Channi, Sukhjunder SinghRandhawa, Tript Bajwa, Sukhwinder Sarkaria and Razian Sultan had opposed thecabinet’s decision. Jakhar had warned that providing jobs to sons of MLAs mightgive the opposition a chance to accuse Congress of promoting nepotism. Callingthe decision ‘ill-advised’ Jakhar had cautioned CM and asked him to revert it.
However,CM had backed up his decision saying the job offer is ‘just a token ofgratitude and compassion' to the people who lost their lives to a cause.
Criticizingthe cabinet’s decision MLA Kuljit Nagra had said, “Party should rollbackdecision and meet the promise of ‘ghar gahr naukri’ instead of giving jobs tokins of MLAs.” Meanwhile, MLA Aamrinder Raja Warring had appealed to MLAs ‘todecline the job offers provided to their sons’.
Thecontroversy surrounds Congress at a time when the party is already facing apolitical crisis in the state due to endless clashes between Chief MinisterCapt Aamrinder Singh and MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu.