Sukhbir to govt: What was the need to change DGP at night?

Aman Sood

Tribune News Service

Samana, December 18

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal today warned “officers trying to implicate SAD leaders at the behest of the Congress government to be ready to face the music once SAD-BSP forms the government”. He claimed he would not suspend but dismiss such officers.

Talking to The Tribune, Sukhbir said the Congress government was effecting transfers in the top police set up on a daily basis and had even changed the acting DGP in a hope that the new incumbent would obey its illegal orders to implicate top Akali leaders in false cases. “What was the need to change a DGP at midnight without any reason. It is a border state and such decisions show only the inexperience of the government and its leaders”, he said.

After holding rallies in support of SAD candidates Surjit Singh Rakhra at Samana and Varinder Kaur Loomba at Patran (Shutrana), he said the SAD had written to the Election Commission to device ways and means to get the manifesto enforced. He said the manifesto should be given the status of a legal document to ensure parties were made liable for promises they made.

“We will also move court if need be to ensure no party fools people by making wild promises. This clause should be included in the Representation of the People Act”.