DW BUREAU / Chandigarh Taking strong exception to the Congress MP's attack on the integrity and fairness of the Punjab DGP, Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked Pratap Singh Bajwa to write to him (as chief minister and home minister of the state), or to the party high command in Delhi if he had any grudge or complaint against the state government. Tearing through Bajwa's letter to DGP Dinkar Gupta word by word, the Chief Minister said it reflected the Rajya Sabha MP's total frustration and desperation, and exposed his own shameless lies in the matter. By his own admission, Bajwa had been highlighting what he alleges to be the "politico-police-drug nexus, production and distribution of illicit liquor, under State patronage and rampant illegal mining in the State of Punjab," Captain Amarinder pointed out, adding that if the state government had to take any vindictive action it would not have waited for the Centre to provide him security. "Have we not tolerated his criticism of the state government all this time?," the Chief Minister quipped, adding that even the opposition parties in the state could not accuse his government of being spiteful. Making it clear that withdrawal of the state security to the Congress MP was his decision, as home minister, based on the intel inputs from the Punjab Police, Captain Amarinder said Bajwa's personal attack on the DGP was not only misplaced but also against the culture and ethos of the Congress party, of which he is a senior member. "If he (Bajwa) does not have confidence in me or my government, why has he not approached the party high command all this time with his grouses? Does he have no faith even in them?" asked the Chief Minister. Even though he had made the situation clear yesterday itself, Captain Amarinder said Bajwa's tirade against the DGP had forced him to repeat the points he had already clarified with regard to the Congress MP's security. For one, Bajwa was not the only person in Punjab whose security personnel had been withdrawn since the outbreak of the Covid, which required cops to be diverted to pandemic duty. As many as 6500 cops had been pulled out of personal security, said the Chief Minister. (editor@dailyworld.in)