When mediapersons asked Vij about a person sending him a threatening message on Twitter over his spat with Superintendent of Police (Fatehabad) Sangeeta Kalia, the Minister said he got to know about it through the media only.
"I have learnt about this through the media. ...I don't care about such threats. No threat can stop me from doing what is right," he told reporters.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Ambala Surender Pal Singh said the matter had come to the notice of the police.
Meanwhile, in his brief interaction with reporters at Ambala railway station while on his way to Delhi today, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said in Fatehabad, not even a single issue has been neglected including drug mafia.
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"Many effective measures are being taken against drug and liquor mafia to save our younger generation from its adverse effects," he added.
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Former Haryana Congress President and senior leader Phool Chand Mullana today submitted a memorandum to the state governor demanding Vij's removal for allegedly using uncivilised language against the woman officer.
"Another incident in which a Dalit boy died due to alleged police torture in Gohana is still fresh in everyone's memories," Mullana told reporters after submitting the memorandum to the Governor.
He said incidents of rape against Dalit women are also common now.
"While all these things were happening, now this incident came to fore in which a Dalit lady IPS officer was badly treated by a senior Haryana Minister.
The Congress leader demanded that Vij should resign and if he fails to do so on his own then he should be sacked.
"These things cannot be tolerated. Insulting a woman IPS officer, who is also from the Dalit community, is just too much," he said, adding that the Khattar government was "insensitive" towards Dalits.
He also hit out at the BJP government in the state, saying it had scrapped the State Commission for Scheduled Castes, which was constituted by previous Congress government.
Notably, the panel was headed by Mullana, a loyalist of former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.