Akalis allege Bikram Majithia's arrest as vendetta

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 23

Local Akali leaders, including MLA Gurpartap Wadala and Pawan Tinu today alleged that the lodging of FIR against ex-minister Bikram Majithia was a clear case of vendetta by the ruling party.

Accompanied by ex-MLA Jagbir Brar, SGPC member Kulwant S Mannan and BSP leader Balwinder Kumar, Wadala said the appropriate legal framework had been followed in the lodging of the case. “The FIR has been lodged on the direct orders of the DGP. The Congress changed the DGP so many times to get their ‘yesman’ on the position after two previous officials refused to lodge the case against Majithia,” said the SAD leaders.

Wadala said building the case against Majithia was registered just on the grounds that some shady people used to come and meet him. “All kinds of people meet the politicians and the leaders cannot just be booked on such flimsy grounds,” they raised the issue alleging that the ruling Congress was indulging in such tactics just to regain their lost ground.