· Says, exposes AAP’s hypocrisy of being pro-worker
. Announces, ff need be, Congress will become party, approach SC
CHANDIGARH, May 2: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today condemned the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab for challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court orders that directed it to grant the Dearness Allowance to the employees and pensioners on the central government pattern.
Reacting to the state’s move to challenge the orders, Warring said this has exposed the AAP’s duplicity and hypocrisy. He pointed out, on the one hand it held a “Special Session” in the name of labourers and the very next day it went ahead with a move to snatch away the benefit to about seven lakh government employees and pensioners in the state.
He also announced that in case there is an adverse order against the employees and the pensioners, the Congress will become a party to the case and will approach the Supreme Court of India.
Otherwise, he added, it is a matter of a few months more, when the AAP will be thrown out and Congress will form the government and the employees and pensioners will be granted the DA benefits on the central government pattern.
The PCC president observed that it was the stubborn attitude of the government not to provide any relief to the employees and pensioners. “Otherwise, providing DA on the central government pattern to employees and pensioners is not a big deal for any government”, he noted while pointing out how the AAP government has been splurging money on non-productive things like advertisements.
Warring said the AAP had also backed out on the Old Pension Scheme for the employees. This was the second blow it has stuck on the workforce of Punjab, which is actually running the state. “It is our state government employees which are running the system on a day to day basis, otherwise, everything would have collapsed”, he said while appreciating the contribution of the state government employees and those who have retired now.
Maintaining that AAP’s hypocrisy was exposed, he said, while on May 1 it held a special session in honour of labourers and workers and the very next day on May 2, it challenged an order of the High Court, which would benefit the workers and pensioners.
“We had already said that the AAP had nothing to do with the labourers and the special session was only for diverting the attention and reassuring itself that it was still in control as the ground was slipping from beneath its feet”, Warring remarked.
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