Proving charges wrong a big challenge for Bikram Majithia

Chandigarh, December 22

Booked for alleged involvement in the drug racket, senior Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia faces the challenge of proving wrong the findings of the Special Task Force (STF) under Harpreet Singh Sidhu that implicated him directly for his role in the supply chain.

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Brother of former Union Cabinet Minister Harsimrat Badal and brother-in-law of ex-Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal, Majithia forayed into the Punjab politics with his first election victory in 2007. He was subsequently elected in 2012 and 2017. His grandfather Surjit Singh was the Deputy Defence Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. After he was elected the MLA for the first time in 2007, he took over reins of the youth brigade in the Majha region and made a special place for himself in controlling the party affairs. Sharing proximity with Sukhbir, he enjoyed major influence in the state administration, including the police.

He emerged as the tallest SAD leader in his area taking over reins from the senior leaders Ranjit Singh Brahmpura and Rattan Singh Ajnala, both of whom quit the party in 2018. — TNS

Bhola triggered trouble for sad leader

• Linking Bikram Majithia with the drug trade, former wrestler Jagdish Bhola got him into the middle of the raging controversy of the illicit drug trade while talking to the media in January 2014
• The Enforcement Directorate had also called Majithia for questioning regarding his alleged role in an international synthetic drug case in December 2014