MC REPLACES CONG’S WITH SAD HOARDINGS
By preetasr | August 28, 2008
A DAY after Punjab Congress campaign committee chief Capt Amarinder Singh’s road show here, the municipal Corporation today served notices on tent- house owners who had erected welcomes gates for Congress leaders in the city.
The MC also removed all posters and hoardings with pictures of Amarinder with in three hours of his visit. There were replaced by posters, banners and hoardings with pictures of SAD president Suhkbir Singh Badal, his wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal and cabinet minister Bikramjit Singh Majithia, Who were in the city to launch the Naanhi Chaan project from Harmandar Sahib?
The MC has issued notices to four tent-house owners for digging up the road to erect welcome gates. MC Commissioner D.P.S.Kharbanda said notices had been served to fine the owners for damaging the road. However, officers and other employees of the MC did not divulge details of the notices to the media.
“We didn’t want to come into the picture for working against the Congress. Thus, we decided to serve notices on tent-house owners rather than political leaders,” said an MC officer on the condition of anonymity.
He said it was a standing order from the bureaucracy to remove all posters, banners and hoardings of Capt Amarinder Singh overnight and replace these with those featuring SAD leaders.
Congress leaders Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Jasbir Dimpa said the action showed how much the sad leadership was afraid of Amarinder. “They can remove his posters but they can’t keep the public away from the Congress. This reflects the political Bankruptcy of the SAD,” they said.
Dimpa said if the officers were working as per rules, they must also issue notices to the SAD for erecting welcome gates in the city. Otherwise, they would face the music when the congress returned to power, he warned.
The MC Commissioner said the corporation had decided this time to punish only those who had dug up roads to erect gates. “No notices has been issued to any political party for putting up hoardings and posters, be it the Congress or the SAD. However, next time we will fine all violators irrespective of their political alignment,” he said.
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