Purohit cites failure of constitutional machinery, reminds CM of SC verdict, seeks report on ‘rampant drug abuse’.
The ongoing tussle between the Raj Bhawan and the Punjab government escalated sharply Friday with Governor Banwarilal Purohit Friday warning Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann that he could recommend President’s rule in the state and also launch criminal proceedings if the questions he had raised in the past in various letters were not answered.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party hit back at Purohit saying the government was working within the constitutional framework and said if the President’s rule was to be imposed, it should be done in Manipur and Haryana, both BJP-ruled states. But the opposition Shiromani Akal Dal accused the AAP of deliberately adopting a “confrontationist attitude”.
Earlier, in a strongly-worded letter to Mann, the Governor pointed out that he was yet to receive replies to his previous letters and told the CM that he had “reason to believe that there is failure of the Constitutional machinery” in the state and that he was contemplating writing to the President of India.
