Ex-DGP Gill’s confidant joins hands with Sathi
Monday, 11/02/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130211/punjab.htm#6
Moga : National executive member of the Janata Dal (United) Ajay Sood, who was election agent of former DGP and SAD candidate PS Gill in the 2012 assembly elections, has announced that he will not support SAD candidate Joginder Pal Jain.
Popularly called Gora Sood, he said: "I will support Vijay Sathi because he is an honest man. I knew his father the late Sathi Roop Lal for the past five decades. The Sathi family enjoys a good reputation."
He said he had managed Gill's election in the last elections only because Gill was "honest, upright and a gentleman." He said the situation was different now as the SAD had fielded Jain who had a shady background.
He said the SAD decision to include Jain into the party fold and then allot him the party ticket was a murder of democracy. "The SAD-BJP Government had arrested Jain after coming to power in 2007. Now, it is supporting him."
He said at a time when a campaign was on in the country to cleanse politics of corrupt politicians, the SAD decision to patronise Jain had sent out the wrong signals to the public.
To a question, Sood said he would not join the Congress but there was no bar on him extending support to its candidate at a personal level. "I have met CWC member Jagmeet Singh Brar and promised to support Sathi. I told him that I would not join the Congress," he said.
" The time has come for the people of Moga to reject those with a shady background and serve as a role model for other voters in the country."
