Cong, Akalis playing friendly match: AAP

Vishav Bharti

Tribune News Service

Fatehgarh Sahib, December 27

The Aam Aadmi Party today blamed Revenue Minister Bikram Majithia for the flourishing drug trade in the state. Party’s Punjab affairs in charge Sanjay Singh even said Majithia would be put in jail for his “misdeeds” once AAP came to power in the state.

Speaking at the party’s rally at Shaheedi Jor Mela, Sanjay Singh said people were aware of the fact that who was behind the drug trade in the state.

Taking on Congress leader Capt Amarinder Singh, AAP’s state co-convener Durgesh Pathak said leaders of the both parties (SAD and Congress) were together when it came to saving each other. “When Majithia was about to go to jail, Amarinder came to his rescue and defused the situation.” He was referring to Amarinder’s opposition to transferring the Bhola drug case to the CBI.

Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann said both Congress and Akali Dal were playing a friendly match and looting the state. Sukhpal Singh Khaira, former Congress leader who recently joined AAP, criticised the state Congress leadership for “not standing by him” when he was speaking against the Badals. “When I raised the cornered the government and the Badal family, nobody supported me,” he said. This government, he said, owed an answer to people that why in nine years nothing had been done against Amarinder in the Ludhiana City Centre scam.

AAP’s state convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur said: “Farmers are committing suicides due to the government’s faulty policies. He said if Badal was so much concerned about the Sikh community then why he was silent on revelations made by former police “cat: Gurmeet Singh Pinky on killing of youths in fake encounters.