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Political reason is also believed to be behind CM Channi not accompanying PM Modi.
Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Punjab, two employees of the Chief Minister’s Office have come corona positive, after which CM Charanjit Channi’s visit to Ferozepur has been canceled. CM Channi will now join the program in a virtual way.
PM Modi to inaugurate Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway, Amritsar-Una four lane, Mukerian-Talwara railway line, satellite center of PGI and 2 medical colleges at Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur ahead of election rally in Ferozepur. Electoral politics is also being considered as the reason behind CM Charanjit Channi not attending PM’s program.
After becoming CM, Charanjit Channi met PM Modi in Delhi.
Finance minister and MLA will be involved, political reason behind CM’s absence
Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal and MLA Parminder Singh Pinky will be involved in this on behalf of the Punjab government due to CM Charanjit Channi not attending the PM’s program. However, political reasons are also believed to be the reason behind CM Channi not attending the inauguration ceremony.
Assembly elections are due in Punjab a few days later. In such a situation, sharing the stage of the Congress CM of Punjab with the PM could have been harmful for the Congress. Especially because farmers and people in Punjab’s villages are still opposing the BJP because of the farmers’ agitation and the deaths in it. However, the Punjab government is making Corona an excuse.
CM wanted to inaugurate himself first, got reprimanded from the center
Earlier, CM Charanjit Channi was to inaugurate the medical colleges to be built in Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur. The preparations for this had also been completed on December 18. However, suddenly the Union Health Ministry got information about this. He reprimanded the Punjab government, after which the inauguration had to be postponed. In these two medical colleges, 60% is being given by the center and 40% by the state. The center has also released an amount of 50-50 crores for them.
On coming to know about the inauguration of the Punjab government, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote a letter to Punjab Chief Secretary Anirudh Tiwari expressing his strong objection. He had also asked how the CM’s program was kept without taking the Center into confidence.
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