Punjab health minister Vijay Singla was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday, hours after he was sacked by chief minister Bhagwant Mann following corruption allegations against him.
It has been less than two months since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) formed the government in Punjab.
The government has accused Singla of demanding one percent commission from development works in his area and also tenders for various works in his ministry.
Mann himself made the revelation on Tuesday going live and said that AAP had formed the government on the issue of clean government and zero tolerance for corruption.
He said, “I knew about the corrupt acts of the minister as neither media nor opposition parties knew about it and I could easily have put it under wraps but for being the soldier of AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, I went ahead to drop him from the cabinet.”
He added that it was happening for the second time in AAP political history as earlier Kejriwal government had dropped a minister on similar charges in Delhi in 2015.
Daljeet Kaur
