It started last week with bad blood between Punjab Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh and the state’s finance minister, Manpreet Badal. Within a few hours, the connection of the chief secretary’s son to the liquor business came to light.
With Punjab’s top bureaucrat also holding the post of financial commissioner (taxation), Chief Minister Amarinder Singh faced yet another potential public humiliation, triggered by internal dissent in the midst of a raging pandemic. With allegations of conflict of interest and charges of presiding over declining excise revenues flying ...
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First Published: Sun, May 17 2020. 20:18 IST
