Heated argument between Majithia, Sukhjinder Randhawa in Punjab Assembly

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3

A heated argument ensued between Jails Minister Sukhjinder Randhawa and SAD MLA Bikram Majithia in the Punjab Assembly here on Tuesday.

They exchanged words during Zero Hour over “patronising gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria”.

Randhawa said it was the weakness of his government that the police had not put Majithja behind bars.

Akali MLAs stormed into the well of the House over “not being allowed to speak”.

MLAs of the treasury and opposition benches demanded action against the officials who refused rooms to MLAs at Punjab Bhavan, Delhi.

The Speaker assured the House that he would summon the Chief Secretary and the officials concerned and take necessary action to rectify the orders of 2007, by which MLAs were placed below a bureaucrat in the rank of principal secretary in protocol, while allotting the rooms at Punjab Bhavan.

Later, AAP members staged a walkout over their adjournment motion on the 85th amendment in the Constitution not being allowed by Speaker Rana KP Singh.

Surjit Singh Dhiman of the Congress took on his own government, saying there is a large-scale corruption in government offices. “We need to look into this immediately,” he said, adding that policies are not being framed in accordance with the party’s pre-poll promises.