Some bureaucrats subservient to Badal, says Brar

By Our Staff Correspondent

SAMANA, JAN. 12. The senior Congress leader from Punjab, Mr. Jagmeet Singh Brar, who was recently appointed the party's whip in the Lok Sabha, has cautioned the people and sought their support in breaking what he referred to as ``the criminal nexus of capitalists, feudal lords and corrupt section of the State's bureaucracy''. He charged that the present dispensation in the State had crossed all records in corruption and promoting nepotism.

Mr. Brar was addressing the Kisan Garib Mahapanchayat organised in Patiala district on Thursday to felicitate him. Urging the people to recognise these forces, Mr. Brar said the ``nexus'' was aimed at perpetuating their rule through proxy and ensure safety of their mutual interests at the cost of the public.

Mr. Brar said there was need to create a people's movement to curb the growing tendency of nepotism in the state politics, which was evident from the desire of Mr. Badal to install his son as the next Chief Minister of Punjab. He said a section of the bureaucracy had become so subservient to the Badal family that some Deputy Commissioners in important districts addressed Mr. Badal as ``Daddy'' and his wife as ``Mummy''. He said this section of the bureaucrats was also projecting Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal as the next Chief Minister of the State.

Mr. Brar created a sensation in the rally when he offered to quit politics for good if his allegations against the Badal family were found to be false.

Mr. Brar expressed anxiety that even after the Supreme Court had passed strictures against Mr. Badal and his favoured bureaucrats, he exhibited no moral propriety to relinquish office. He was referring to the judgement of the apex court in the case relating to the State Government's alleged victimisation of a former Chief Secretary, Mr. V. K. Khanna, who had ordered prosecution of two of his colleagues considered close to Mr. Badal.

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