AAP Minister In Punjab Found Running 'Non-Existent' Department For 20 Months, BJP Reacts

BJP leader Pradeep Bhandari slammed the Aam Aadmi Party for what he described was a mockery of governance in Punjab after State Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal was found heading a "non-existent" department for 20 months.

In a post on X, Mr. Bhandari said, "AAP has made Governance in Punjab a joke! The AAP Minister ran a department for 20 Months that never existed! Imagine that for 20 months, the CM did not even know that a minister was running a " NON EXISTENT DEPARTMENT."

According to a Punjab government Gazette notification released on February 21, Mr. Dhaliwal who holds the portfolio of the NRI Affairs department was allocated the charge of the Department of Administrative Reforms, which the Government now says does not exist.