CHANDIGARH, May 23: Thousands of Congress workers across the state today burnt the effigies of Local Bodies Minister Tikshen Sud for his involvement in large scale corruption during his tenure as the Forest Minister. The workers also appealed the Governor Shri Shivraj Patil to remove Sud from the ministry as he had no moral right to continue.Reports from various district headquarters including Ludhiana, Jallandhar, Amritsar, Patiala, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur and other places said that the Congress workers came out on streets shouting slogans against Sud and the BJP for preaching one thing and practising something else. They later burnt the effigies of Sud.
PCC Vice President and in charge of the PCC office here, Mr Lal Singh, who was coordinating the protest demonstrations, said that there is large scale resentment among people against Sud. He said, the BJP stood totally exposed after the revelations by a senior Forest department officer that Sud was involved in large scale corruption during his tenure as the forest minister.
Singh maintained that the Congress will intensify the protests in the coming days across the state to expose the corrupt Akali-BJP government most of whose ministers are thoroughly corrupt. He questioned the BJP claims about high moral ground by seeking resignations from ministers only to induct other corrupt ministers like Sud once again.