Punjabi University Don to fight assembly elections against CM
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Punjabi University Patiala Assistant Professor Dr Pankaj Mohindru has announced to contest the upcoming assembly elections from Patiala (Urban), the home turf of Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh.
Dr Pankaj Mohindru, Chairman, Human Right Cell, Punjab Congress is working as Assistant Professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering department and is Head, University Science Instrumentation Centre.
When contacted, he confirmed that “he is going to fight 2022 assembly elections from the home turf of Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, Patiala (Urban).
When asked, he is from a family of congress supporters, which supports Preneet Kaur, wife of Capt Amarinder Singh, then why is contesting against CM? On this Dr Mahindru said, “yes, I belong to a family which supports Congress. My father Dr Narbhadaur is a polling agent for Preneet Kaur. I am Chairman, Human Right Cell, Punjab Congress, resident of Patiala (Urban) and it’s my right to claim ticket from the party high command, for the upcoming assembly elections, from Patiala (Urban). If the party denied me ticket, I’ll fight the elections as an independent candidate.”
When questioned, why is going to contest from Patiala (Urban). On this he said, “our Patiala (Urban) MLA is missing from his home constituency, for the last around 54 months. Due to his absence, corruption is rampant in his constituency, governance is missing, no development has taken place, except laying of tiles in the city, no additional infrastructure, industry etc were added in these months, no employment has been given to the royal city youths, no bailout package is given to Punjabi University. Due to this, university staff is struggling to get timely salaries. Due to his irrational decision, to open two universities (Sports and Open University) in the state, Punjabi University Patiala is going to face financial crunch. The health facilities are crumbling at Govt Rajindra hospital, one of the renowned government hospitals of the region. No super specialist is ready to join Rajindra hospital. We have machines at Rajindra Hospital, but we don’t have technicians. No recruitment is being done in Government colleges, due to regular staff shortage, the education level is deteriorating. These are the main reasons, that I decided to fight the elections, for the betterment of the royal city residents.”
He further added that “Rome was not built in a day” and I’ll try to do best for the residents of Patiala, after winning the elections. He added that “like our city MLA, who is the chief minister of the state and is invisible, I will be available 24X7 for the welfare of the royal city residents. Being a common man, I knew the local issues, problems of the royal city Patiala. I’ll streamline the health, education, local development, governance and all other key sectors. I have no vested interest, so the point of doing corruption is not possible.”
Punjabi University Don to fight assembly elections against CM. Dr Mahindru added, “our family is in social activities also. I am actively associated with a NGO which has been formed by my father Dr. Nar Bahadur Verma with the name of Human Rights Care Organization (Regd), Patiala. Royal City who’s-who from all walks of life were associated with the organization. The social organization is running four sewing centers in different areas of Patiala. The organizations is giving free rations to widows from last 100 months. There are other several social activities which have been regularly executed by the organization.”
July 28,2021
