Investigations reveal that in the past five years, the Punjab Government allotted over Rs 400 crore worth of work to companies either owned by the Kairons or run in collaboration with other consortiums. In Shivalik Electricals, Adesh Partap and Parneet Kaur are shareholders. Both Adesh Partap and Uday Partap are directors in another Kairon company - Shivalik Farm Chemical Limited. Both these have done or are doing business with the state government.Īdesh Partap’s brother Uday Kairon is the CEO of Shivalik Agro Limited, which operates from Kairon’s cinema house Neelam Theatre in Chandigarh.
In addition, the Kairon family owns two other companies - Shivalik Agro Chemicals and Shivalik Electric Equipment Company Private Limited.
Adesh Partap is also a shareholder in the company. Shivalik Telecom Limited is owned by Adesh Partap’s mother Kusum Kumari and his wife Parneet Kaur, besides Vikram Singh. Parneet Kaur is married to Adesh Partap Singh Kairon, grandson of Punjab’s former Chief Minister Partap Singh Kairon and Food and Civil Supplies Minister in the Badal government. While Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s daughter Parneet Kaur is not visible on the state’s political scene, her company Shivalik Telecom Limited is among the beneficiaries of the works allotted in the state’s power sector. While doing so, there is evidence to suggest Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s extended family allegedly benefited as the second in the series of The Tribune’s investigative report reveals Badal govt’s ‘power’ boost for Kairon companiesĪ major thrust area of the SAD-BJP regime has been to make Punjab surplus in power.