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No need for Jagjit Singh to quit: CM
Tribune News Service

Nadala (Kapurthala), September 16
Giving clean chit to Local Bodies Minister Jagjit Singh in the Ludhiana City Centre scam, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said there was no need for the minister to resign.

Talking to mediapersons soon after a public rally at Nadala today, the Chief minister said neither Mr Jagjit Singh would resign from his post nor he would ask him to do so.

He said it was not a scam and the Opposition was raking up this issue for cheap popularity.

Mr Amarinder Singh said he was ready to debate with SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal over the issue of development in Punjab.

He said the Cabinet would soon take a decision with regard to various demands of the employees.

Replying to another question about the shifting of the proposed Indian Institute of Science from Jalandhar to Mohali, he said the setting up of law university in Patiala and the IIS in Mohali was exclusively a decision of the Prime Minister.

Prominent among others who spoke on the occasion included PPCC chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, PWD and Education Minister Partap Singh Bajwa, Local Government Minister Jagjit Singh, chairperson, All-India Safai Karamchari Commission, Santosh Chaudhary and DCC chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira.