BJP must pull out of Badal govt on drug issue: Bajwa
Monday, 26/05/2014
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday took a dig at the SADBJP coalition, asking the BJP in Punjab to pull out of the Parkash Singh Badal gover nment “as the next logical step after making an honest observation that drug smuggling in the state had strong political patronage.”
Taking a cue from state BJP chief Kamal Shar ma’s interview to HT (May 25), wherein Sharma said the BJP would now be “more assertive” and it was now time to come clean on the mafia tag, the PPCC chief said the former had realised the gravity and enor mity of the drug menace only during these Lok Sabha elections.
He added that Sharma had hit the nail on the head by emphasising that all those whose names had been linked to drug smuggling, irrespective of their parties, must come clean.
Shar ma was not alone in making the confession about political patronage to drug smuggling as his party’s senior leader Balramji Dass Tandon, too, had made a scathing attack on politicians involved in this racket in league with the police, Bajwa said.
“With the state president of the alliance partner (the BJP) calling a spade a spade, it is all the more necessary that the CM initiate action against those in his cabinet whose names have surfaced in drug smuggling. It is now not the Congress that is levelling any allegations. The BJP admits the fact,” Bajwa said.
