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Chandigarh, May 3: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today said that the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal should either resign from his post or shut down his transport and other businesses including the Orbit Aviations (earlier Orbit Transport) as it was a clear case of conflict of interest.
“All these years in a clear case of conflict of interest you have brutally abused your position and power and multiplied your fleet of buses from 40 to 250 by threatening and bullying not only other private transporters, but also the PRTC and Punjab Roadways, into submission which has eventually led to everybody except you suffering huge losses while you are making huge profits”, he told Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in a statement issued here today.
Capt Amarinder disclosed, when he became Chief Minister in 2002 at that time he was on the Board of Directors of some companies like Ranbaxy, DLF Industrial Cables and Mount Shivalik Breweries. He said, he resigned from all the companies after seeking legal opinion from the Punjab Advocate General who told him, this amounted to conflict of interest since all these companies were based in and operating from Punjab.
The former Chief Minister disclosed that while the Badals has grabbed about 250 route permits, most of these forcibly, they were actually plying about 500 buses on all the profit making routes. “NO government official or the police can dare to stop these buses as your conductors and drivers misbehave with officials and get away with it”, he told Mr Badal while adding, “the Moga incident was the outcome of the same immunity from law you have provided to your erring and bullying drivers and conductors”
He said, abusing their power, the Orbit Aviations Ltd has grabbed all the profit making routes from other transporters by threatening and bullying them physically and slapping false cases if anybody refused and left out the loss making routes for them and the PRTC and Punjab Roadways. “Otherwise why the PRTC and Punjab Roadways and other transporters are making losses while Badals’ fleet is multiplying?” he asked.
