Chandigarh/New Delhi (12.08.2021): Bureaucrats and bitter critics have found a place to give wise counsel on party affairs to the newly appointed Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu when he appointed four advisers, including Lok Sabha member Dr Amar Singh (Rtd IAS:1981:MP) and former IPS officer Mohammad Mustafa (Rtd IPS:1985:Punjab). The other two included Dr Pyare Lal Garg and Malwinder Singh Mali. “I personally hold each of them in high regard, for their vision and work to envisage a better future for every Punjabi,” Sidhu wrote in the appointment order who was appointed the Punjab Congress president by the party leadership last month despite strong opposition from chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh. Amar Singh is the Lok Sabha member from Fatehgarh Sahib who had worked with Sidhu as his adviser when the latter was the local government minister in the Amrinder Singh government. He quit the position in February 2018 and then got elected to Parliament in 2019. Another adviser Mustafa’s wife Razia Sultana is a cabinet minister in the Punjab government and has sided with Sidhu. Mustafa was among those superseded by 1987-batch officer Dinkar Gupta when he was appointed the state police chief by the Amarinder Singh government in February 2019. He challenged the appointment in the court. Garg is a social activist and former registrar of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. Mali retired from government service where he worked with the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) as a script writer and now regularly comments on political affairs on social media and television channels. He has been severely criticising Amarinder Singh.
Former bureaucrats take over as advisers of Sidhu
By IndianMandarins - 2021-08-12 06:21:00
Chandigarh/New Delhi (12.08.2021): Bureaucrats and bitter critics have found a place to give wise counsel on party affairs to the newly appointed Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu when he appointed four advisers, including Lok Sabha member Dr Amar Singh (Rtd IAS:1981:MP) and former IPS officer Mohammad Mustafa (Rtd IPS:1985:Punjab). The other two included Dr Pyare Lal Garg and Malwinder Singh Mali.
“I personally hold each of them in high regard, for their vision and work to envisage a better future for every Punjabi,” Sidhu wrote in the appointment order who was appointed the Punjab Congress president by the party leadership last month despite strong opposition from chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh.
Amar Singh is the Lok Sabha member from Fatehgarh Sahib who had worked with Sidhu as his adviser when the latter was the local government minister in the Amrinder Singh government. He quit the position in February 2018 and then got elected to Parliament in 2019.
Another adviser Mustafa’s wife Razia Sultana is a cabinet minister in the Punjab government and has sided with Sidhu. Mustafa was among those superseded by 1987-batch officer Dinkar Gupta when he was appointed the state police chief by the Amarinder Singh government in February 2019. He challenged the appointment in the court.
Garg is a social activist and former registrar of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences. Mali retired from government service where he worked with the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) as a script writer and now regularly comments on political affairs on social media and television channels. He has been severely criticising Amarinder Singh.
