Chandigarh, November 22
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today sought clarification from the Government of India about the media reports suggesting that the proposed 131st amendment to the Constitution of India will separate Chandigarh from Punjab with a separate administrator.
Hoping that there is no such move by the central government, as it is totally uncalled for, he appealed to the union Home Minister Amit Shah to clarify the situation. “Chandigarh belongs to Punjab and any attempt to snatch it away will have serious repercussions”, he warned while hoping that the centre government will not make any such misadventure.
He urged the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to immediately take up the matter with the central government to nip the proposal, if any, in the bud before it is too late.
The PCC president expressed strong apprehensions in the backdrop of an earlier order of the union education ministry scrapping the Senate and Syndicate of Panjab University. The orders have been withdrawn after this led to strong resentment and resistance from Punjab.
“Successive governments at the centre from time to time have committed and reiterated that Chandigarh belongs exclusively to Punjab and delay in getting it transferred to its parent state in no way weakens Punjab’s case and cause”, he asserted, while asking the central government to clarify the situation and in case it has any such proposal, to abandon it immediately and forthwith.
