Chandigarh, May 2 -- Leader of Opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa on Friday suggested that the government should stop the salaries of the chief minister, LoP, ministers, MLAs, as well as IAS and IPS officers until the pending dearness allowance (DA) dues of government employees and pensioners in the state were cleared. Speaking in the House, Bajwa said that DA arrears were pending for nearly 7.5 lakh employees and pensioners in government departments, boards and corporations in the state, despite a court order for their release. "Till the time their pending DA instalments are cleared by the state government, the salaries of the chief minister, mine, ministers, MLAs, IAS officers, and IPS officers should be stopped. We should do this for the employees. This will send a very good message," he said during a discussion on an official resolution regarding an increase in the base wage rate for workers. The Congress leader also said that the Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Fund had a corpus of around Rs.1,200 crore, which should be utilised for the welfare of registered construction workers.HTC...