Noting that the ruling Aam Aadmi Party was acting like the British East India Company, Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today condemned the AAP government’s decision to appoint a rank outsider as the Chairman of the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC). Reacting to the appointment of Sanjay Gupta, former Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary as the PSERC Chairman, Warring noted that the AAP was unabashedly humiliating the Punjabis by putting outsiders on the positions that are the rightful due of the Punjabis and Punjabis alone.
“It is now an established and acknowledged fact that the AAP has outsourced the entire government to Delhi, with people from the national capital manning all the departments, the latest appointment has further rubbed salt into the Punjabis’ wounds”, he said, asking why did the AAP not find anyone from Punjab to head the PSERC.
He said, earlier also the AAP government had appointed chairpersons to various boards and corporations from outside, particularly the Punjab Pollution Control Board and Punjab Real Estate Regulator Authority (RERA). “It reminds of the British East India Company which would appoint its own officials from Britain in India to fleece the country and the AAP was precisely doing the same thing”, Warring remarked, while adding, Punjab’s wealth, is being drained out and diverted to other states to feed and finances AAP’s greed and hunger.