The Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Dairy Development and SC/BC Welfare Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike today personally met the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in view of recent media reports regarding the case registered against his former PA's alleged involvement in the misappropriation of public funds disbursement and voluntarily submitted his resignation on moral grounds this morning.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that Ranike urged the Chief Minister to accept his resignation immediately to uphold the highest moral ethics in politics as well to maintain the dignity of the office held by him so as to enable the ongoing enquiry by the Vigilance Bureau to proceed in a free, transparent and impartial manner without casting any aspersions. In his resignation letter, Ranike reiterated that he and his family had always stood firmly in his social and political life as a votary for honesty, transparency and high moral values as propagated by the Shiromani Akali Dal. He also mentioned that he and his family has ever reposed unflinching faith and confidence in the supremacy of the SAD party under the leadership of the Patron & Chief Minister and its President. Ranike also pointed out that his brother had laid down his life fighting for the sake of the parties' principles and policies. The Chief Minister highly appreciated the moral courage shown by Ranike in submitting resignation on his own. Making a firm resolve, Badal said that the law of the land will takes its own course and made it crystal clear that the vigilance enquiry ordered by him in the case was in line with the SAD-BJP's Govt. policy to ensure clean, transparent and corruption free governance. Meanwhile, the Chief Minister forwarded the resignation of Ranike to the Punjab Governor Mr Shivraj V. Patil with a request for its immediate acceptance.