Gurugram: Going through expenses of sexual harassment and assault, former hockey player-turned-politician Sandeep Singh was ignored Tuesday by Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini within the first growth of his cupboard.
Governor Bandaru Dattatreya administered oath of workplace and secrecy to eight ministers — one Cupboard Minister and 7 Ministers of State (Unbiased cost) — on the Raj Bhavan.
Kamal Gupta, who was sworn in as the cupboard minister, was the primary to be administered the oath. The Hisar MLA was a minister within the earlier Manohar Lal Khattar Cupboard as effectively.
Badkhal MLA Seema Trikha, Panipat Rural MLA Mahipal Dhanda, Ambala Metropolis MLA Aseem Goel, Nangal Chaudhary MLA Abhe Singh Yadav, Thanesar MLA Subhash Sudha, Bawani Khera MLA Bishamber Singh Balmiki and Sohna MLA Sanjay Singh are the opposite new members of the Council of Ministers.
Whereas former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar was current on the swearing-in ceremony, senior BJP chief Anil Vij but once more skipped the occasion.
Other than Vij and Singh, not one of the six Unbiased MLAs who prolonged help to the Saini authorities discovered a spot within the cupboard. Haryana can have a most of 14 ministers, together with the chief minister.
As Chief Minister Nayab Saini and cupboard ministers Kanwar Pal, Mool Chand, J.P. Dalal, Ranjit Singh, and Banwari Lal had been sworn in on 12 March, and eight ministers inducted Tuesday, all of the slots are crammed within the cupboard.
Within the morning, Sandeep Singh was seen main his supporters to welcome Saini when he did a roadshow in Ambala and Kurukshetra on his approach to Karnal for BJP president J.P. Nadda’s rally.
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— Sandeep Singh (मोदी का परिवार) (@flickersingh) March 19, 2024
Throughout the finances session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, the then CM Manohar Lal Khattar supported Sandeep Singh on February 27 after Congress MLA Geeta Bhukkal requested pointed questions in regards to the functioning of the sports activities division.
Bhukkal had additionally questioned how Singh was replying to her question associated to the sports activities division in the course of the Query Hour when he was not holding the portfolio.
In January final yr, Sandeep Singh gave up the portfolio of state sports activities minister after an FIR was registered in Chandigarh on the criticism of a junior athletics coach who accused him of sexual harassment.
Popping out in help of Singh, Khattar had mentioned that the previous was a “respectable” cupboard member and warned Bhukkal of “consequences”.
“Sandeep ji mere mantrimandal ke sammaniye saathi hain. Mein apni sarkaar ke kisi bhi mantri ko keh sakta hu jawab dene ke liye. Aapne ye kaha ye uchit nahi hai. Aap iss prakar ki… mein shabad prayog karna nahi chahta… anayatha inn chhezo ke parinaam acchhe nahi hotey hain. (Sandeep ji is a respected companion of my cabinet. I can ask any member of my cabinet to answer your questions. What you said isn’t done. I don’t want to use that word. Otherwise, the consequences of these things won’t be good),” Khattar had mentioned within the meeting,
When ThePrint contacted Bhukkal, the Congress MLA made a philosophical statement in regards to the developments that came about ever since Saini was sworn in because the chief minister.
“Time is the greatest leveler. In less than a fortnight from that incident in the State Assembly, neither Khattar is the chief minister nor Sandeep Singh is a minister,” she mentioned.
Bhukkal additional mentioned that the folks of Haryana had been carefully watching how the federal government patronised these accused of sexual assault on girls and that the voters would give a becoming lesson within the upcoming polls.
All India Democratic Girls’s Affiliation (AIDWA) nationwide vice-president Jagmati Sangwan, too, made an analogous assertion in regards to the BJP as she gave the instance of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and Sandeep Singh.
“When the junior athletics coach levelled allegations against Sandeep Singh, Khattar termed the allegations as absurd and said that allegations don’t make a person guilty. Had the complaint not been filed in Chandigarh, the police in Haryana wouldn’t have even registered an FIR against Sandeep Singh,” Sangwan informed ThePrint over the telephone.
She mentioned that when the Chandigarh Police registered the FIR, everybody anticipated Khattar to drop Sandeep Singh from his cupboard. Regardless of calls for by the Opposition and ladies activists, she mentioned, the BJP authorities protected Sandeep Singh.
It was solely due to the grit proven by the complainant that Sandeep Singh was going through prosecution within the courtroom else Khattar had termed the allegations as “absurd” with none probe, she asserted.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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