It was constitutionally recorded on the floor of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Thursday that corruption prevailed in this country since over the past five decades cutting over the party lines.
Just after the walkout against the seminar on the resolution for punishment to the guilty in the 2G spectrum scam, the Congress legislators returned to the floor, facing the debate on corruption that took the shape of a seminar where they counted the historic scandals for over the past five decades.
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It was Jasjit Singh Bunny of the Shiromani Akali Dalwho presented the resolution recommending 'to the state government to take up the matter with the Centre for careful punishment to the accused of the 2G spectrum case and other scams that came to the light recently'.
The Congress members stood in protest citing inescapable rules that the issue could not be discussed and even staged a walkout raising slogans. The opposition members led by Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, however, returned to participate in the debate on the issue; defending the Upa regime with an seminar that those bigwigs named as accused were removed from their coveted positions and even made to resign as a union minister.
Bunny and Bikram Singh Majithia of Sad condemned the Upa government for "a amount of scams advent on the surface". They highlighted the 2G spectrum episode along with the Central Vigilance Commissioner's extraction for corruption.
Sukhpal Singh Khaira of the Congress stated that the Upa government had already taken corrective measures by even request the accused bigwigs to resign from the coveted posts.
"What else the treasury benches want now after A Raja was asked to resign from the union cabinet?" Khaira stated, pointing out that the Upa had all the time been accountable to the population of the country.
Khaira then pointed out the Pims scam stating that the huge land for the cause of the state-of-the-art curative originate with a value of Rs 25,000 crore was sold off at mere Rs 131 crore to the "jathedars" (Akali leaders).
Khaira even accused the Akali-Bjp government in Punjab of patronising the cable mafia.
"Every second bus in Punjab is directly or indirectly owned by the stakeholders in political power," he said.
"Orbit, Jujhar, Dabwali Transport," Khaira shouted while accusing the ruling politicians of misusing the state machinery for undue profits in the converyance sector. The speaker expunged the name of a singular ruling political family that Khaira named in this regard.
Makhan Singh of the Congress recounted that former Bjp national president Bangaru Laxman was caught taking bribe in a sting operation. He also cited the coffin scam in which former defence clergyman George Fernandes faced accusations during the Nda regime.
Manoranjan Kalia of Bjp then recounted the Nagarwala episode in which the said a close connect of Indira Gandhi fraudulently withdrew lakhs. Then there was a scam in the buy of 15,000 jeeps during Gandhi's regime, Kalia stated as he highlighted the Bofors case and Harshad Mehta's stock scam during Congress regimes.
The resolution was passed straight through a voice vote.
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