Akalis used drug money to win election: Congress
Friday, 22/11/2013
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AJNALA: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which promises to uproot drug addiction from the state, used drug money to win elections, the Congress has alleged.
On Thursday, the Majharegion leaders of the state’s main opposition party marched through the markets of this Amritsar district town to put pressure on the Election Commission of India to look into how Amarpal Singh Bony won the last assembly election at Ajnala.
Pointing to the arrest of Akali leader Maninder Singh Bittu Aulakh, they said his drug money from the now exposed international racket of dismissed police officer Jagdish Bhola was the secret of Bony’s victory.
If the use of drug money was established, Bony’s election to the state assembly be annulled and fresh contest held in Ajnala, the Congress demanded in a memorandum that they will now mail to the subdivisional magistrate (SDM) because he wasn’t in his office to receive it.
Aulakh was Bony’s election agent in the last Ajnala contest, the Congress has claimed. “The Akalis cannot deny it, as I have an attested copy of his saying this in court,” said former legislator Harpartap Singh Ajnala, who lost to Bony in 2012.
Aulakh had made the statement in an election-related dispute, in which he had accused Harpartap Singh Ajnala of causing noise pollution during the campaign. The Congress leaders raised slogans against Bony, Aulakh, and Rattan Singh Ajnala, who is member of Parliament from Khadoor Sahib and Bony’s father.
State Congress vice-president OP Soni referred to the drugabuse problem in the state said the ruling party was not only protecting the drug mafia but also letting them influence elections.
Legislator Sukhjinder Randhawa, and Congress leaders Tarsem Singh DC, Swinder Singh Kathunnangal, Sukhdev Singh Shahbazpuri, and Sardool Singh Bundala also participated in the march.
