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BJP should answer for crores of rupees defrauded from more than 800 people: AAP
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, May 22, 2024: Scams of taking money in exchange for job have been coming to light in Chandigarh city for the last few days, today AAP said in a press conference.
Chandigarh Mayor Kuldeep Kumar and senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Prem Garg, Chandramukhi Sharma and councilor Hardeep Singh Buterla held a press conference in Sector 35 to take strict action against all the culprits of this scam. During this, councilors Prem Lata, Damanpreet Singh, Jasveer Singh Ladi, Yogesh Dhingra, Ramchandra Yadav and Manowar were also present.
Speaking on the occasion, Mayor Kuldeep Kumar said that the scams that took place during the tenure of BJP are continuously coming to light, last year the parking scam came to light. After that, in the name of hiring cleaning staff in schools, poor people were defrauded by contractors in the name of jobs and now the biggest scam has come to light of contractor Simar Kherwal defrauding crores of rupees from Balmiki community and other sections in exchange of jobs.
Mayor Kuldeep Kumar further said that the job scam cannot happen without the connivance of government officials and BJP leaders. He said that the administrative officials were sitting with completely closed eyes and did not know anything about this scam.
He demanded from the administration that the money that has been defrauded of poor people should be returned and strict action should be taken.
He said that yesterday some poor people of Chandigarh city came to meet him and told that they had given the money to the contractor by mortgaging their jewellery and house documents. But this entire scam came to light when the contractor did not pay the salary. The Mayor said that today he has written a letter to the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of Chandigarh, Shri Banwari Lal Purohit to take strict action against the culprits of this scam.
On this occasion, AAP leader Chandramukhi Sharma said that a mafia is working behind all these scams and the mafia cannot work without political help. Whenever a contractor appoints people for any work, their attendance is taken by a government employee. But nothing like this happened here and common people were made to work without pay.
Chandramukhi further said that even after 800 people were cheated of crores of rupees in a city like Chandigarh, all the BJP leaders and the Governor are sitting silent. BJP talks about Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, but in Chandigarh the common people are being looted day and night and all the BJP leaders are sitting with their mouths closed.
On this occasion, he demanded from the administration that this entire scam should be investigated by a sitting judge of the High Court, because all other agencies are working under the pressure of BJP.
On this occasion, Chandramukhi Sharma demanded that BJP candidate from Chandigarh Sanjay Tandon should give up his Lok Sabha candidature and BJP President Jitinder Malhotra should resign from his post, because this entire scam happened during BJP rule.
The Governor and all the BJP leaders are sitting silent and the general public is protesting on the streets. BJP MPs, former mayors and governors are responsible for all these scams, under whose nose this entire scam took place.
Speaking on the occasion, AAP leader Prem Garg said that scams are continuously coming to light under BJP rule, but no action is being taken by the administration.
He said that to stop these scams, the administration should make a policy with clear intentions and put the list of all the contractors on the website. Scams are continuously coming to light in the contracting system and there is a great need to take strict action against it.
Councillor Hardeep Singh Buterla said that such a scam has come to light for the first time in Chandigarh, when a contractor cheats crores of rupees from the common people in the name of job without tender.
Making appointment without tender and not paying attention to it for several months is a big failure of the BJP government.
He said that Aam Aadmi Party demands that this scam should be investigated as soon as possible and all the accused should be sent behind the bars. If this is not done then the Aam Aadmi Party will protest against it by taking to the streets for the rights of the common public and the money of the common public will be returned.