Bajwa rejects Sukhbir’s clean chit to Majithia
Friday, 20/06/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140620/punjab.htm#4
State Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa today rejected Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's clean chit to his brother-in-law and Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia over his alleged links with drug smugglers and reiterated that the investigation in this case should be handed over to the CBI.
Bajwa said Sukhbir was trying to get away by saying that the allegations against Majithia were created by media as he had "cleverly avoided" ordering any inquiry into the allegations.
Bajwa said no investigation had been done by any agency against Majithia and this was exactly why he had been demanding a CBI probe into the multi-crore racket. Interestingly, the demand for CBI inquiry had not been supported by former Chief minister and Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh.
Bajwa said Sukhbir cannot not be the investigator, prosecutor and the judge himself when it came to Majithia in the scandal. Bajwa said the Deputy Chief Minister could not have different standards for different people as he had acquitted his brother-in-law but Tourism Minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur had to submit his resignation as the name of his son Damanvir Singh had cropped up in the drug scandal.
