Stay away from politics, Sukhbir Badal tells officers

Tribune News Service

Tanda, December 17

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the Congress government had frequently changed the top police brass to coerce the new incumbents to implicate top Akali leaders in false cases.

Talking to newsmen here, the SAD president said: “A lie is a lie, that’s why top police officers are refusing to toe the Congress government’s directions to register false cases against top Akali workers. The government affected two changes in the top leadership of the Bureau of Investigation (BoI) by first changing ADGP Arpit Shukla and then ADGP Varinder Kumar. Now, ADGP SK Asthana, the third incharge of BoI, has exposed the government by writing to the DGP and seeking directions as to how he can register any illegal case at the directions of the government.”

Will be hauled up

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The law is same for everyone. Anyone who breaks it will be hauled up once the new SAD-BSP government is formed. —Sukhbir Badal, SAD chief

Asserting that seniormost officers were not ready to become a party to political vendetta, Sukhbir requested all bureaucrats to keep in mind that they should not get embroiled in this drive. “The law is same for everyone. Anyone who breaks it will be hauled up once the new SAD-BSP alliance government is formed.”

He said the same fate would befall bureaucrats who were acting as “political agents” of the Congress.

When asked about the dismissal of Punjab’s Special Leave Petition challenging the HC order giving relief to the Orbit transport company, he said, “Now the court has said what we were claiming earlier. That the Punjab Government is playing politics on the issue.”

For the Kandi belt, the SAD president announced that besides creation of a special ministry for the area’s development, the next SAD-BSP alliance government would also create guaranteed job opportunities for the youth.