An AAP legislator in Punjab said on Saturday that he has surrendered his travel, dearness allowances and other perks protesting that on the first day of the Assembly's winter session the House was adjourned within 11 minutes as a result of which lakhs of public money went "down the drain".
In a letter to the Speaker of the Punjab Assembly, AAP MLA Aman Arora said that his conscience does not allow him to accept travel allowance, dearness allowance and other perks for the sitting of the House on December 13, "which was adjourned within 11 minutes after paying obituaries to the departed souls, and no issue concerning the state or its public was discussed."
The legislator from
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