The Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab scrapped the Department of Administrative Reforms led by Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal.
Taking a dig at the AAP government in Punjab, the BJP claimed that the said department was not even functioning for the past 20 months, questioning whether Chief Minister Mann knew that a minister was running a "non-existent department."
Taking to X, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari wrote: "AAP has made Governance in Punjab a joke! The AAP Minister ran a department for 20 Months that never existed! Imagine that for 20 months, the CM did not even know that a minister was running a " NON EXISTENT DEPARTMENT."
Taking a dig at the AAP government in Punjab, the BJP claimed that the said department was not even functioning for the past 20 months, questioning whether Chief Minister Mann knew that a minister was running a "non-existent department."
Taking to X, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari wrote: "AAP has made Governance in Punjab a joke! The AAP Minister ran a department for 20 Months that never existed! Imagine that for 20 months, the CM did not even know that a minister was running a " NON EXISTENT DEPARTMENT."
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00:00More news coming in, Amit Rao over fake department in Punjab.
00:03Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann breaks silence,
00:06says department formed under the previous government.
00:08Mann says there was confusion due to two same departments.
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01:25I'm going to go straight across to Aseem Basi for more details on that story.
01:29Aseem, this is a clarification coming in after much embarrassment, isn't it?
01:39Yeah, ever since morning the story broke out.
01:42The opposition has been taking heart of the Iman government here.
01:45That why a minister was given a portfolio for more than one and a half year.
01:49And that portfolio of which department never existed.
01:52The department was non-existent.
01:53But it was allocated to a minister as a cabinet ministry of administrative reforms.
01:58Although, Bhagwant Maan has come out and said that it is about the previous governments.
02:02We have corrected the things.
02:03But why it took them almost three years to correct it?
02:05Like, if it was about the previous governments,
02:08so we are in the third year of the government, of the Maan government.
02:11Why it took so late?
02:12And Kuldeep Dhaliwal, who held this administrative reforms,
02:15and currently also holds the NRI ministry,
02:17has nothing clear to say, but just say,
02:19we are not here to take departments.
02:21We are not here for portfolios.
02:22We are here to work.
02:23So, in a way, the opposition has come hard.
02:25It has come as a major embarrassment to the government
02:27that one department, administrative reforms, did not exist.
02:31It existed only on paper.
02:33There was no physical presence.
02:34No office.
02:35No IAS officer.
02:36Nothing like that.
02:37No meetings.
02:38But still, a minister was allocated that department,
02:40was given that portfolio,
02:42and the Maan government now says they have corrected it,
02:44and it took them three years.
02:45So, this is how the opposition has basically targeted today.
02:48Be it Congress.
02:49Be it BJP.
02:50Be it Srinomania Kalidhar.
02:51They have come hard on Maan government,
02:52saying that this was a change they were talking about.
02:55I am going to thank you, Aseem, for the moment,
02:57for getting in those details,
02:58the clarification coming in.
03:00Is it too little, too late, is the big question here.