Former Akali leader and MLA from Amritsar South constituency Inderbir Singh Bolaria resigned from the Vidhan Sabha on Monday. Bolaria, who is set to join the Congress on Tuesday, sent his resignation through fax and email to assembly speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal in the afternoon. The two-time MLA, who will be formally inducted into the Congress by its state chief, Capt Amarinder Singh, on Tuesday, said: “I had objected to the garbage dump in my assembly segment keeping in mind the health of people, but I was ignored. Till now those behind the Bargari sacrilege have not been caught.”Raising concern over farmer suicides, Bolaria, in his resignation letter, mentioned that “giving justice to people has remained a distant dream in the SAD-BJP regime, while the government is looting people”. Bolaria was suspended from the SAD in July this year.

Source: Hindustan Times October 10, 2016 15:33 UTC