Speaker calls Dakha MLA H S Phoolka for personal hearing on resignation on February 20
IP Singh | TNN | Updated: Jan 25, 2019, 12:26 IST
File photo of Dakha MLA H S Phoolka.JALANDHAR: Punjab assembly speaker Rana KP Singh has called Dakha MLA H S Phoolka for personal hearing on February 20 to ask him about his resignation from the state assembly. On Monday, the speaker had sent a notice to rebel AAP MLA Sukhpal Khaira after Aam Aadmi Party informed the speaker that the MLA had resigned from the party membership and he should be disqualified.
“Letter has been sent to MLA Phoolka and I shall ask him and then any decision would be taken,” said the speaker, confirming the development.
Phoolka had sent his resignation from state assembly on October 12, 2018 to protest against the failure of the Captain Amarinder Singh government to act on the findings of the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission that had probed Bargari sacrilege and police firing at Koptkapura and Behbal Kalan, in which two Sikhs were killed on October 14, 2015. He had said that during assembly session long speeches were given by five ministers talking about registering criminal cases but then no case was registered against former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and former DGP Sumedh Saini even as the minsters had said that both of them were responsible.
He had given a 15 days ultimatum to the state government to register the criminal cases against Badal and DGP or the five ministers should resign and as a first step he would resign along them. He had alleged that the Congress government had misled the people on the issue. After police officials named in Behbal Kalan firing went to the Punjab and Haryana high court which granted stay on action against them, he postponed his resignation and sent it in October, holding that HC did not grant stay on investigation against Saini but still the government had not acted.
He met the speaker on December 12, 2018 that he would not rethink his resignation and also submitted a brief letter stating that he had earlier sent his resignation and it should be accepted.
When asked, Phoolka said that he had not yet received any communication from the speaker but if called, he would definitely meet the speaker.
“Letter has been sent to MLA Phoolka and I shall ask him and then any decision would be taken,” said the speaker, confirming the development.
Phoolka had sent his resignation from state assembly on October 12, 2018 to protest against the failure of the Captain Amarinder Singh government to act on the findings of the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission that had probed Bargari sacrilege and police firing at Koptkapura and Behbal Kalan, in which two Sikhs were killed on October 14, 2015. He had said that during assembly session long speeches were given by five ministers talking about registering criminal cases but then no case was registered against former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and former DGP Sumedh Saini even as the minsters had said that both of them were responsible.
He had given a 15 days ultimatum to the state government to register the criminal cases against Badal and DGP or the five ministers should resign and as a first step he would resign along them. He had alleged that the Congress government had misled the people on the issue. After police officials named in Behbal Kalan firing went to the Punjab and Haryana high court which granted stay on action against them, he postponed his resignation and sent it in October, holding that HC did not grant stay on investigation against Saini but still the government had not acted.
He met the speaker on December 12, 2018 that he would not rethink his resignation and also submitted a brief letter stating that he had earlier sent his resignation and it should be accepted.
When asked, Phoolka said that he had not yet received any communication from the speaker but if called, he would definitely meet the speaker.
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