Punjab Congress chief accuses CM Mann of being ‘chronic liar’

New Delhi, July 29 (AHN) Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of being a “typical chronic AAP liar” who survives on denial, deceit and lies.

Warring was reacting to Mann’s denial about paper leaks having taken place during his tenure in Punjab.

Several Congress MPs again staged a protest against the paper leaks to coincide with the passage of the stricter anti-paper Bill in the Lok Sabha.

Besides Warring, the MPS included Amar Singh, Gurjeet Aujla and Dharamvir Gandhi.

Warring pointed out how the Chief Minister was denying that any paper leaks took place in Punjab during his tenure. He said, among others, the paper leaks of pharmacists’ exam and the Class XII English paper are still fresh in the memory of people.

“If CM Mann believes that he can use the formula of telling a lie 100 times to make it sound true, he is badly mistaken,” the state Congress chief noted while telling the Chief Minister that denial will not provide any escape route to him.

He said the formula is simple. “Like Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned over paper leaks, so is the minister to resign in Punjab,” he said, adding the AAP cannot avoid removing the minister using lies. Warring also criticised the Chief Minister for the brutal treatment meted out to MGNREGA workers who were demanding their salaries.

He said the AAP government was lying to them also by trying to divert the issue and seek their regularisation through the Government of India.

Warring said that if the AAP government is sincere and serious in regularising the MGNREGA workers, why does it need to write to the Central government, which does not have any regularisation policy, to do it on its own? He said, on both issues, about the paper leaks and regularisation of the MGNREGA workers, the AAP was using denial and deceit, which is its core policy of governance.