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Chandigarh: A day after the AAP government in Punjab suspended two senior IAS officers for taking the wrong decision in dissolving gram panchayats across the state months before rural elections, the Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) said the call was taken at the level of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar...
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia made the claim in a video message issued Friday where he released a purported copy of a page from the notings file of the Rural Development and Panchayats Department..
The chief minister, he said, had himself given the final nod for the decision to dissolve the over 13,000 gram panchayats in the state on 8 August...
The controversy centres on a notification issued by the Department of Rural Development and Panchayats on 10 August dissolving the gram panchayats, zila parishads and block samitis in Punjab, months ahead of elections to the bodies, which are due in November-December...
Bhullar said the government had dissolved the panchayats so that preparations for the elections could be made well within time, adding, But the moment Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann came to know about the decision, he immediately revoked it and strict action was taken against the officers responsible for taking the decision...
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