Navjot Sidhu, Partap Bajwa target Capt Amarinder, AG Atul Nanda on drug, firing cases

Chandigarh, April 20

As pressure within the Congress is building up to seek answers for the botched probe into the Kotkapura police firing cases and those behind it, senior party leaders in the anti-Capt Amarinder Singh camp further stepped up their attack on the CM and the Advocate General (AG).

After targeting Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh for failing to act against the perpetrators of the sacrilege and police firing incidents, former Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday hit out at his government for failing to act against “big fish” involved in the drug trade.

The cricketer-turned-politician, while referring to a report on drug cases compiled by special task force chief Harpreeet Sidhu, sought to know the action taken on it. “Despite investigations, reports and evidence in drug cases, big crocodiles are roaming in open while small fry rot in jail. Why powerful drug mafia kingpin not punished?” Sidhu said in his tweet.

Joining the issue, Rajya Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Dullo said the guilty in the sacrilege and police firing cases should have been behind bars by now. “In four years, we have not acted. The government has to be answerable to the public. Drug and mining mafia still have the upper hand”, said the former PPCC chief.

Taking on the AG, Rajya Sabha MP Partap Bajwa said despite instructions of the Chief Minister to the AG to personally appear in sensitive cases, the latter ignored. — TNS

AAP MLA seeks nanda’s resignation

Chandigarh: AAP MLA and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Saravjit Kaur Manuke on Tuesday demanded immediate resignation of Punjab Advocate General Atul Nanda in the wake of the quashing of the SIT probe into the sacrilege cases by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The AAP leader alleged that IPS officer Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, who was heading the SIT, had exposed the “role played by Atul Nanda in the desecration and other cases”. TNS

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