Questioning the former AAP leader’s motives in instigating legislators to quit over the Bargari issue, several ministers have termed HS Phoolka’s resignation a stunt.
On Saturday, Phoolka asked all MLAs who had raised the Bargari issue in the Assembly to resign. In a joint statement here on Sunday, Cabinet Ministers Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Sukbinder Singh Sarkaria and Gurpreet Singh Kangar criticised Phoolka for his provocative demand for legislators’ resignation.
They said if Phoolka was genuinely concerned about the issue and its implications, he should have returned the Padma Shri awarded to him by the very government, which had “pressured” the CBI to file a closure report in the Bargari case.