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AAP minister in Punjab ran non-existent department for 20 months
India Today
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2/22/2025
The Punjab government finds itself in an embarrassing situation as it is revealed that AAP minister Kuldeep Dhaliwal was overseeing a department that existed only on paper.
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Alok Das, this is Shreya Chowdhury.
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We have some more breaking news coming in from Punjab.
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Huge embarrassment for Maan in Punjab.
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AAP minister runs non-existent department in Punjab.
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AAP minister runs non-existent department for about 20 months.
00:19
Punjab Minister Kuldeep Dhalewal was assigned non-existent department.
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The Punjab government has now been left red-faced after a notification.
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My colleague Aseem Basti is joining us live on the broadcast with more details.
00:36
Aseem, help our viewers understand on what exactly the confusion was.
00:40
How is it that an AAP minister was able to run a department that essentially did not
00:44
exist and the government did not take notice of it for the last 20 months?
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Well, as far as we have learned that in the last reshuffle, Kuldeep Dhalewal was robed
00:58
of few charges but he was given the NRI ministry, he had earlier the NRI ministry and the administrative
01:04
reforms.
01:05
But as the days, as the months and past and almost one and a half year ago passed, nothing
01:12
came up.
01:13
But suddenly things came up saying that this administrative reforms department is a non-existent
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department.
01:20
So suddenly the Punjab governor issued a notification with the nod of the chief minister that we
01:25
need to scrap this department because this is a non-existent department.
01:28
We checked from our sources, it is learned that the minister or his staff continued to
01:32
keep asking the bureaucrats that where is this department, where is the office, who
01:37
is the officer involved.
01:38
There was no IAS to it, no office to it.
01:41
It was only on papers.
01:42
The administrative reforms department was only on papers.
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It lacked physicality.
01:48
It was not physically present.
01:49
So it is a huge embarrassment for the government which has given a portfolio to a minister
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which was non-existent.
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So now they have found it out and now it has led them into a major embarrassment.
02:01
Thanks for bringing us those details.
02:03
Quite shocking the fact that it took nearly two years for the government to take notice
02:07
that one of the key portfolios that had been assigned in fact does not exist.
02:10
This is a huge embarrassment for the Bhagwant Mahant government in Punjab.
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