Phones of oppn leaders being tapped: AAP to EC
Friday, 19/08/2016
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CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira has written to the Election Commission that Punjab Police was resorting to “illegal phone tapping” of opposition leaders, including him, on instructions of deputychief ministerSukhbir Singh Badal.
“Since Punjab is due for elections early next year, Punjab Police have procured latest equipment through which they can tap mobile phones. The police have also procured interceptor vehicles that can be parked outside any building to intercept incoming and outgoing calls. A top Punjab Police official has given me information about the phone tapping. I can also disclose the address of the premises from where the operations of illegal phone tapping are taking place,” Khaira’s letter to the EC reads.
He said the conversations can be misused by doctoring them to defame leaders and parties in the run-up to assembly polls. “One such edited and doctored telephonic conversation between MPs Bhagwant Mann and Dharamvira Gandhi was purposely leaked on the social media by Punjab Police sources in order to malign AAP leaders. This amounts to gross violation of our fundamental right of freedom to speak and also violates the Indian Telegraphic Act,” adds the letter. The Aam Aadmi Party announced 13 candiates for the 2017 Punjab polls in Amritsar on Thursday. Earlier on August 4, the party had delcared names for 19 seats. PATIALA (RURAL) Former sarpanch of Chhanna Nathuwala, chauffeurs Kejriwal on his Punjab visits. Senior vice-president of Aam Aadmi Party kisan wing LUDHIANA (EAST) Class-12-pass, two-time councillor, contested as independent from Ludhiana East in 2012 and secured more than 22,000 votes SUNAM A former Congressman, well-heeled president of a health-and-education trust, heads the trade/transport and industry wings of the AAP DIRBA (SC) Lawyer, former Sangrur Bar Association president, Sangrur zonal head of the AAP’s legal Cell GHANAUR Postgraduate daughter of former Congress minister Jasjit Singh Randhawa, organises blood-donation camps and mass marriages of poor people MALOUT (SC) A postgraduate, retired as principal of a government girls senior secondary school in 2012 after 34 years of teaching, is author, critic, and satirist AMLOH Class-12-pass former PPP secretary general moved out of the Akali Dal along with Manpreet Singh Badal. Joined AAP in February after Manpreet joined the Congress JAITO (SC) JBT teacher for 31 years and former Faridkot teacher union president, he led various agitations and joined the AAP after retirement TALWANDI SABO English teacher and AAP women’s wing president, social worker, AAP candidate in Talwandi Sabo by-election, secured more than 13,000 votes to stand third ATTARI (SC) Punjab ETT Union vice-president, active in agitations for the causes of farmers, labourers, employees, and unemployed youth NABHA (SC) Class-12-pass head of the AAP’s Scheduled Cast and Scheduled Tribe wing in Punjab, acted in two Punjabi movies before shifting to Canada in 2009. Was with the PPP earlier SHAMCHAURASI (SC) An MD in medicine from PGI, Chandigarh, he runs a private hospital. Organises free medical camps in Hoshiarpur SAMRALA Farmer and former SAD youth wing president, quit the SGPC after the Bargari desecration incident last year.
