AAP SC wing protests scholarship ‘scam’

Chandigarh, June 15

The Aam Aadmi Party’s state SC wing today held a hunger strike and staged district-wide protests across the state against the Post-Matric Scholarship “scam”.

Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly Harpal Singh Cheema said hunger strikes and demonstrations led by district-in charges of the party’s SC wing were held in front of the offices of the Deputy Commissioners in all districts.

A large number of district leaders and party volunteers participated in the protests and raised slogans against the ruling Congress government, demanding registration of cases against Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal and Social Welfare Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot under the SC/ST Act.

Cheema said AAP’s struggle would continue till a case was registered against Badal and Dharamsot. He said the investigation report submitted by senior IAS officer Kirpa Shankar Saroj on the “scam” revealed that the scholarships were given by the Social Welfare Minister to his crony managers of fake colleges. “Private colleges have not received funds and lakhs of Dalit students have been deprived of their right to education,” he said, adding that earlier the SAD-BJP government had robbed the Dalits of their rights and now the Congress government was doing the same. — TNS

Dullo joins students

Jalandhar: Rajya Sabha Congress MP Shamsher Singh Dullo on Tuesday joined a Dalit students' protest against his own party-led government at the Deputy Commissioner's office here. He demanded a CBI inquiry against SC Welfare Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot. tns