New Delhi: in a press statement, BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said, being an election Member of Parliament I know what my duties towards the development of Amritsar are. I will do my duty honestly without criticizing anybody and without speaking against anybody and I will sit on a fast-unto-death from Saturday. “He would go on a fast-unto-death from Saturday to protest against the stalling of disbursement of development funds for his Amritsar constituency.
“Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has directed me to remain silent. But my duty towards Amritsar would never be stopped,” Sidhu, who returned from Delhi said.The three-time MP said, “Everybody knows why I am going to take such an extreme step and how my five or six major developmental projects including Solid Waste Management, City Bus Service, Multiple Sport Complex, expansion of Bhandari Bridge were scuttled.” Sidhu said, “The Amritsar Improvement Trust had Rs 160 crore funds, but no development work was carried in the past six years. Instead Rs 60 crore were diverted to others districts of Punjab with the aim to scuttle my projects and “I was unable to convince the authority for development of Amritsar,” he said, adding “the decision to go on fast is my own.” Navjot Singh sidhu said he would not point fingers at anyone for the delay in carrying out development and added he had requested Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to order a judicial probe to ascertain on whose order Rs 60 crore of Amritsar Improvement Trust was diverted.
Bureau Report
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