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* Senior leaders Maheshinder Grewal and Sharanjit Dhillon say the Punjab Congress should first demand the resignation of its President Partap Bajwa
Chandigarh, August 9 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked the Punjab Congress to come clean and take the resignation of all its leaders who had been incriminated in drug trafficking.
In a statement here, senior SAD leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said the first resignation which Congressmen should demand should be of Pradesh Congress President Partap Singh Bajwa. The leaders said former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh had stated on record in a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi that Partap Bajwa was involved in drug trafficking. “We challenge Bajwa and the Punjab Congress to deny the veracity of this letter as well as its contents”, they added.
Mr Maheshinder Singh Grewal, who is Advisor to the Chief minister, said it was not only the top Congress leadership which was tainted by drug money. “The rot covers almost the entire party from the top down”, he said adding Jalandhar MP Santokh Chaudhary and even Indian Youth Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring were found to be involved in drug trafficking by investigating agencies.
Mr Grewal said while Santokh Chaudhary was found to be taking money from drug traffickers, Raja Warring’s personal assistant was caught in the drug net. “It is worth mentioning that Raja Warring is a chosen appointee of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi”, he added.
Cabinet minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon castigated Rahul Gandhi for following such double standards. “On one hand you falsify a survey for political ends and try to portray Punjabis as drug addicts. On the other hand you reward people like Raja Warring whose hands are tainted with drug money”, he added.
Advising the Punjab Congress to desist from double standards and selective memory, the leaders asked the Punjab Congress to tell the Punjabis whether Partap Bajwa, Santokh Chaudhary and Raja Warring were guilty of colluding with drug traffickers or not. They said since evidence pointed towards the guilt of the Congress leaders with a senior leader like Capt Amarinder giving a testimonial against Partap Bajwa, the Congress should throw light on the activities of its own leaders while talking about drug smuggling.
