: Mann keeps his promise of zero tolerance to corruption #IndiaNEWS #India Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)has been in power in Punjab for a little over three months and in an unprecedented action

Mann keeps his promise of zero tolerance to corruption #IndiaNEWS #India
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)has been in power in Punjab for a little over three months and in an unprecedented action Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann himself announced the sacking of his Cabinet colleague from the council of ministers and his subsequent arrest for alleged corruption.
The action to get him arrested came after Mann, a firm believer in zero tolerance against corruption and illegal practices, came to know that Health Minister Vijay Singla, 52, a first-time legislator and a dentist by profession, was allegedly demanding a one per cent commission in tenders and purchases of the department.
Singla, who was arrested on May 24 and whose plea is that the entire case revolves around the allegation of demand based solely on a purported audio conversation, is in judicial remand that has now been extended till July 8.
Mann, whose party won a landslide mandate, is toeing the line of Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, who had sacked his food and civil supplies minister Aseem Ahmed Khan in 2015 on corruption charges and had ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe.
His anti-graft crusade has led to a rash of arrests of politicians and government functionaries, besides contractors and middlemen.
The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau, whose head Ishwar Singh appointed by the previous Congress government, was replaced with Varinder Kumar on May 31, arrested Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, a five-time former legislator who was the forest minister in the Congress regime, this month for his alleged involvement in issuance of permits for cutting of khair trees.
As Social Welfare Minister, Dharamsots name also surfaced for misappropriation of funds under the Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme for students belonging to Scheduled Castes.
His successor Sangat Singh Gilzian has also been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act for alleged wrongdoings in his department.
Days after the arrest of Dharamsot, another high-profile political crackdown was the arrest of former legislator Joginder Pal for alleged illegal sand and gravel mining on the Ravi and Beas riverbeds in Pathankot district.
After his arrest, Mining Minister Harjot Singh Bains in a tweet said: Those who looted Punjab and exploited our Mother Earth would not be spared. Joginder Pal was kingpin of mining mafia in Pathankot. Its just a beginning; no one from mining mafia will be spared.
Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, who has condemned the arbitrary arrests of his party leaders, has also been caught in the eye of a storm.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday asked the Chief Minister to order a CBI probe into the Rs 60-crore bus purchase and bus body building scam allegedly committed by Warring when he was transport minister under Chief Minister Charanjit Channi.

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