Cong corners SAD-BJP over Sidhu’s ‘red-beacon’ remark
Tuesday, 05/07/2016
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Either Dy CM should quit or CPS be removed: Jakhar
Amritsar : Cornering the SAD-BJP government over BJP MLA Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu’s recent remarks about drug trade flourishing through red-beacon vehicles, Congress leader Sunil Jakhar today said if it was true, Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal should resign on ethical grounds and if it wasn’t true, Dr Sidhu should be removed from her post.
On July 3, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dr Sidhu had slammed the Deputy CM while alleging that some leaders were using their official, red-beacon vehicles — which the Deputy CM had allotted to every Tom, Dick and Harry — to supply drugs.
PPCC vice-president Sunil Jakhar said, “It is unbecoming of a Deputy CM, who is also holding the charge of home ministry, to forego such a serious statement by a leader of their alliance partner. I appreciate Dr Sidhu for issuing such a bold statement. If it is true, then the BJP should snap ties with SAD, otherwise it is understood that the BJP too is hand in glove for the drug menace as red-beacon vehicles have equally been allotted to their leaders and officials too. The Deputy CM should step down morally and ethically,” he said.
Quoting Minister of State (Home) Kiren Rijiju’s endorsement of drug addiction against a query posed by a Congress MP from Uttrakhand Mahendra Singh Mahra in Rajya Sabha about cross-border infiltration and connivance of security agencies with drug smugglers in Punjab, Jakhar said the minister had furnished details of policemen and jail staff who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the illicit trade.
