BATHINDA: Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) state president and MP Bhagwant Mann has said that the Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress government has set a record of scams even during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mann said alleged that the state government had committed irregularities in the purchase of ‘Fateh’ kits meant for Covid patients.
Mann and Jarnail Singh, an MLA from Delhi, alleged that by using the ‘disaster as opportunity’; the state government embezzled crores by selling vaccines to private hospitals.
They alleged that the state exchequer had also been looted in the purchase of ‘Fateh kits’.
The leaders alleged that the state government robbed the people of Punjab by buying Fateh kits worth Rs 837 at a hefty price of Rs 1,338 per kit.
They stated that the Captain government had earlier completed the tender on April 3 for the purchase of Fateh kits, fixing the price at Rs 837.78 per kit and the time limit for supply of these kits was fixed at six months.
The AAP leaders said that the Captain government had on April 20 agreed to procure the Fateh kits for Rs 1,226.40 through a second tender, which was much higher than the earlier price.
“The government procured 50,000 kits for Rs 1,226.40 per kit through the second tender,” they added.
The leaders said government had on May 7 issued a separate tender to purchase more kits and through this tender an agreement was reached to procure kits at the rate of Rs 1,338 per kit.
Through the third tender government procured 1.50 lakh kits, they said.