Congress to probe SAD-BJP ‘scams’: Jakhar

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, Janaury 9

Senior Congress leader Sunil Jakhar today claimed that the Congress would constitute six commissions to probe the ‘network of the mafia’ and ‘scams’ that had taken place under the patronage of SAD-BJP leaders, once the party comes to power.

He said the Congress would also break the nexus between the government and corporate groups, which had been running in the state for the last 10 years.

Jakhar said the Badal family had twisted the norms in their vested business interests and to loot public resources.

The Congress leader claimed that the political power restricted to one family would not be tolerated.

Speaking over the stone pelting on Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal’s convoy yesterday at Jalalabad, Jakhar said he condemned the incident as people should not resort to violence during the elections.

From sources, he came to know that poor people wanted to meet the Deputy Chief Minister to tell him that funds send for making toilets had not reached them, but they were not allowed to meet him, Jakhar said, adding that helpless residents finally resorted to this act.

Over the shifting of Doda to the Amritsar jail, Jakhar said he had written to CEO VK Singh, appealing him conduct raids at the Amritsar jail to avoid any untoward incident in elections as he had the information that DGP rank officials were linked with this and they were providing everything to the accused in the jail.

He said two incidents within a span of one month — the first one was the Nabha jail break and now, the Fazilka jail incident — showed the total failure of the system.

Jakhar was in the city today to release the manifesto of the Congress, a few hours later after the manifesto was officially launched by former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in Delhi in the morning.