Prove charge or face legal action: Phoolka to Capt

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 10

A day after PPCC chief Capt Amarinder Singh accused him of having received money from the victims of anti-Sikh riots, AAP leader HS Phoolka today challenged him to prove the allegation in one week. Addressing the media persons here, he warned of taking a legal recourse against Amarinder in case the latter failed to come out with facts corroborating his claim.

Amarinder had yesterday alleged that Phoolka took money from the riot victims through his 12 junior counsels. Phoolka asked him to name the 12 juniors and the riot victims who paid them to fight their cases.

The AAP leader alleged that the case against Amarinder’s friend Jagdish Tytler for his role in inciting mob against Sikhs in 1984 was watertight and in the last leg of delivery of justice. He vehemently announced that Tytler would go to jail and the Congress leaders were worried over its consequences as the party was already in doldrums. He accused the PPCC chief of shielding the perpetrators of the anti-Sikh riots.

Responding to the accusation by Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal that senior AAP leaders received kickbacks for allotting ticket, he said Sukhbir thought that his party culture and system pervaded in other parties as well. Phoolka said the Akali Dal could never give ticket to ordinary people from non-political background as was done by AAP.