Congress brings Akali ‘truck’ to drive home point

Rajmeet Singh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 12

Mocking the SAD-BJP government over the alleged foodgrain scam, the Congress Legislature Party today produced a motorcycle that was allegedly passed off as a truck to transport farmers’ produce from the mandis to the godowns.

The motorcycle, labelled “Akaliyan da truck”, was brought to the Vidhan Sabha by Congress MLA Sunil Jakhar and CLP Leader Charanjit Singh Channi. The party purchased the vehicle from its Patiala-based owner.

Citing a CAG report, Jakhar and Channi said this bike was one of the 15 vehicles which were shown to have been used for transporting foodgrains. He said they were trying to trace all vehicles whose registration numbers were mentioned in the records.