Punjab NSUI president Akshay Sharma on Monday urged chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to make sure footage of Mahatma Gandhi are restored in all state authorities workplaces as earlier than.

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“Those behind the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s picture must be taken to task,” Sharma stated in a press launch issued in Chandigarh and sought an inquiry to determine who ordered the removing of the photographs of the Father of the Nation from state workplaces.

“People have entrusted you with the huge responsibility of leading the state with humility, decisiveness and respect,” Sharma stated, interesting to the chief minister to intervene and guarantee a corrective course.

The NSUI state president put out a memorandum on the difficulty. “The Father of the Nation is our most revered national figure, like all our freedom struggle heroes, Shaheed-e-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, who gave everything to ensure freedom for us,” he stated.

“Mahatma Gandhi’s pictures along with those of other national icons adorn the walls of public offices to inspire our youngsters. The dream of Rangla Punjab can only be achieved when we all work towards it with love, respect and cooperation of each other,” Sharma added.

While taking the oath of workplace because the chief minister final week at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of Bhagat Singh, Mann had stated that no authorities workplace will show the {photograph} of the chief minister. Instead, photographs of Bhagat Singh and BR Ambedkar will likely be placed on partitions in authorities workplaces.

In the run-up to the February 20 elections, AAP nationwide convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had additionally stated that portraits of Bhagat Singh and Dr BR Ambedkar will substitute these of the chief minister or different political leaders in all authorities workplaces in Punjab if the AAP got here to energy.