Harsimrat demands privilege action against Mansa SSP
Chandigarh/ Ludhiana, Nov. 1 -- Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Saturday urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to initiate breach of privilege proceedings against Mansa senior superintendent of police (SSP) Vaibhav Chaudhary for obstructing her from discharging her duties and dismissing her concerns over the police taking custody of the body of a person whose death the family has attributed to a drug overdose.
Harsimrat wrote to the Speaker, submitting a notice under Rule 223 and seeking his consent to raise a question of breach of privilege and contempt of the House. She also called for summoning a report from the Punjab government on the entire issue surrounding the incident. Daljit, 35, a resident of Bhamme Kalan village in Mansa district, was found dead in a field near Ramananda village on October 27.
The MP also sought the summoning of all records in the case, including the relevant FIR, inquest and post-mortem records as well as the information on the whereabouts of Daljit's father Jarnail Singh, who was allegedly taken into custody by the Mansa police.
The MP, who also submitted the recording of her conversation with the SSP on October 29 to the Speaker, said it demonstrated the officer's dereliction of duty. The MP urged the Speaker to give his consent to initiate breach of privilege action.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said his party, if voted to power, will waive all taxes on food processing industries, besides allowing mixed-land use in case of non-polluting industries.
The SAD president, who interacted with traders and industrialists here, said Samrala had a great potential for food processing of maize, potatoes and peas, and food processing units will be started on a 56-acre plot earmarked for this industry in the constituency.Badal was replying to a demand by the local industry that even though a food processing cluster had been approved and inaugurated, no industry had been set up till now....
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