Majithia grilling, BJP ‘double standards’ Cong rally issues
Sunday, 28/12/2014
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SIRHIND: The Enforcement Directorate’s questioning of Punjab revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s supporting the Shiromani Akali Dal during no-confidence motion in the assembly were issues that the Congress raised on Saturday during its Fatehgarh Sahib Shaheedi Jor Mela rally.
Addressing party workers, state Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa said if voted to power, the party would eliminate drug addiction from Punjab in a year. “We will open special courts for daily trials in drug cases, make the names of drug lords public, and confiscate their assets,” said Bajwa, condemning the SAD and the BJP over the issue. “The Congress will form the next government and take the Majithia case to its logical conclusion,” he said, adding: “Majithia’s family might say he isn’t involved in drug trade, but 60% of the liquor that sells in Punjab comes from his distilleries.”
Former chief minister Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, and Congress leaders Kaka Randeep Singh and Kuljeet Singh Nagra also condemned the BJP.
“In public, the BJP criticises Majithia over the drug issue and demands his resignation, but in the assembly, it supports the government over the issue,” said Bhattal. “They have been partners in the crime for the past more than seven years in which drug, sand, liquor, and transport mafia have flourished in Punjab,” she added.
The leaders also raised the issue of Punjab’s poor financial health and how the state had failed to secure special grants from the Centre. “Chief minister Parkash Singh Badal always accused the previous Congress regime at the Centre of being biased against Punjab. Now he should go after the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government that has not given the state even a penny, so far,” said Bhattal.
Former state Congress president Shamsher Singh Dullo and legislator Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Gurkirat Kotli, and Amrik Singh were among the other people present.
