Has Punjab got its “Aam Aadmi” chief minister?

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Has Punjab got its “Aam Aadmi” chief minister?

Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in

Within a week, after the present chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi took oath of office and secrecy, the residents of Punjab feels that they get an “Aam Admi” as their chief minister.

After observing his acts, his working style in a week’s time, the people start believing that he is a common man, like them.

After taking over the reins of the border state, in his first public appearance at IKGPTU Kapurthala, he announced from stage “I am one of you and I don’t need an army of 1000 security personnel to protect me from my own brethren”. He had termed it is sheer wastage of government resources. Channi said that overruling the rationale given by intelligence agencies regarding threat to his life, he has asked the Police to reduce his security.

Today, underlining the need to curb the VIP culture, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi asked the Ministers to keep their security personnel at the barest minimum as per the guidelines as he had already curtailed his own security. Channi said that this initiative would not only be instrumental in deployment of extra security personnel judiciously but also save the general public from unnecessary inconvenience in this regard.

Earlier, on Sunday, he accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, visited the house of labourer late Sukhpal Singh (30) at village Mandi Kalan in Bathinda and handed over the appointment letter of government job to Natha Singh, the elder brother of the deceased and Gurmail Singh of Chauke village in Rampura Tehsil of Bathinda as his only son late Jashanpreet Singh (18) had died at Tikri Border on January, 2 this year. He had a lunch at their house.

After taking oath, he along with two deputy chief ministers, PPCC president Navjot Singh Sidhu paid obeisance at Darbar sahib,Durgiana mandir at Amritsar. Later he visited a a road side famous tea stall and had a tea at that stall. After that he went to mini sectt. Amritsar and got himself clicked with Punjab police band officials, who were giving him guard of honour.

He even stopped his official cavalcade and take “Siropa’ from a villager and got clicked him with them, which is dream come true for a common man.

“Punjabi’s had never seen such a common man as chief minister, since late seventies. As in late seventies black days started in Punjab and take away the peace of the state. With the passage of time, the gap between the chief minister and a common man started increasing. After the death of Beant Singh, the gap widens, due to tight security ring around the chief minister. Now, for the first time, the residents of Punjab have seen such a chief minister who is doing all this. These acts of his is making him a aam admi chief minister. Even Parkash Singh Badal had a quality of meeting with public, but not like Channi is doing.” said Parminder Singh.

September 27,2021