Come clean on Randhawa’s reported meeting with Mukhtar Ansari

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh December 25

The Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday asked Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi to come clean on whether his Home Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has had a closed-door meeting with the family and close links of gangster Mukhtar Ansari.

The reported development assumes significance in the wake bomb blasts and the recurrent acts of sacrilege in Punjab in recent weeks.

In a statement, Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal said that there have been reports on the Congress government resorting to sponsored acts of terrorism and sacrilege to distract public attention from “its failures”. He asked the chief minister to make a categorical statement as to why his home minister whose duty it is to be a guardian of peace and law and order found it necessary to meet a famed outlaw like Ansari.  The development gives credence to reports that the present rulers are out to vitiate the atmosphere of peace and communal harmony in Punjab and make political capital out of it, Grewal said.