111. Illegal bus stands operating near a residential and commercial area of Mohali town

The sources revealed that Bir had got the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court implemented by getting an illegal bus stand operating near a residential and commercial area of Mohali town, adjoining Chandigarh, removed. Some of the buses operating from the illegal bus stand were from the Orbit Transport Company owned by the family of the Chief Minister.

The high court had ordered the administration to remove the illegal bus stand from the spot after residents complained to the court. But when it was done, the affected transporters complained to Sukhbir Badal and Bir was immediately and unceremoniously removed from his post.

In his resignation letter, while Bir commended Badal and the chief secretary, the name of Sukhbir Badal was conspicuously missing.

In the last few months, after being elevated as deputy chief minister, Sukhbir Badal, who is also the Akali Dal president, calls all shots in the government headed by his 83-year-old father.

The Akali Dal has been running an alliance government with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state since March 2007.