Sand mining row: Charges slanderous, says Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 22

Terming the allegations levelled by SAD leader Bikram Majithia against him as “baseless and frivolous”, Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi today dared the Akali leader to present even a single proof that indicates his involvement in sand mining across Punjab.

All at BJP’s behest

The BJP is using central agencies to take revenge from me after PM Modi’s fiasco. The Opposition is playing politics over issue. Charanjit S Channi, CM

“I have never denied my relationship with my nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey and being a relative, he might be present at some of my functions. It is not a crime to get clicked with relatives at my son’s marriage or some other functions,” said CM, while denying his links in the Honey’s money laundering case being investigated by the ED.

Lashing out at Majithia for the “slanderous and misleading” campaign against him, CM Channi said Majithia was dancing to the tunes of the BJP government, and was trying to take revenge for booking him in an NDPS case, claiming former CM Capt Amarinder Singh, in cahoots with SAD-BJP, had covered up his misdeeds.

CM Channi said: “Let me remind Majithia he was investigated by the ED for his relations with drug peddlers and a drug kingpin named him for sheltering and facilitating smuggling of drugs. Majithia’s photos were with them. Does it mean he knew them and sheltered them?”

He asked Majthia, former CM Parkash Singh Badal and SAD chief Sukhbir Badal to clear their stand on their relationship with drug peddlers including Anwar Masih, Bittu Aulakh, Jagdish Bhola, with whom they usually shared political stages. Reacting to the audio recordings of Iqbal Singh and his son Binder taking his name, Channi claimed if a person was using his name for personal gains, it didn’t mean he was associated with them. —

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