AAP leaders demand arrest of SAD MLA booked by CBI
Tuesday, 28/06/2016
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BATHINDA: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took to streets in Bathinda on Monday demanding arrest of SAD MLA Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu who along with 17 others has been booked by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an alleged scam.
The party workers took out a protest march in the city raising slogans against the Talwandi Sabo MLA and also submitted a memorandum to Punjab governor through deputy commissioner Bathinda.
The protesters were led by AAP’s women wing Punjab president Baljinder Kaur. Kaur had contested the by election to Talwandi Sabo assembly segment in August 2014 which was won by Sidhu defeating his nearest rival Congress candidate Harminder Singh Jassi by a margin of over 46, 000 votes. The march started from fire brigade chowk and reached district administrative complex passing through to railway station market, Post Office bazaar, Dhobi Bazaar and Arya Samaaj chowk, Court Road and Mehna Chowk.
The AAP leaders said that despite a case been registered by CBI in the alleged `231 crore scam in the company International Customer Related Management Services Private Limited on directions of Punjab and Haryana High Court, the accused are roaming free.
