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Chandigarh, August 31: The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today said the ruling Akali Dal and BJP were allies too in all sorts of crimes including drug smuggling which necessitated high court monitored CBI inquiry as the issue concerned the future of the state.
He said the latest case was the arrest of Ferozepur BJP leader Jarnail Singh Nimana and his associates by the Rajasthan police from whom opium was recovered. Earlier, the several associates of the state BJP President Mr Kamal Sharma have appeared in cases of smuggling, fake licences, fake currency and currency and these people including even his PA.
“The BJP has suddenly stopped raking up the drug smuggling issue as its leaders are equally involved in this despicable conspiracy against the Punjabis. The Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi and the BJP chief Mr Amit Shah should speak up as Punjab is a border state and it is too well known that drug money all over the world is siphoned off into terrorist activities too. Punjab has already suffered for more than a decade. It is for this reason that the Congress has been demanding court monitored CBI probe”, he added.
Mr Bajwa said both the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal and the Deputy Chief Minister Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal have been in denial mode. However, they had not reacted to the naming of the Information and Public Relations Minister Mr Bikram Singh Majithia by the enforcement directorate investigating officer in the drug racket Mr Naranjan Singh for his transfer to Kolkata as he had questioned the latter in the money laundering case related to drug smuggling.
The PPCC chief questioned the so called morality being preached by Mr Modi, Mr Shah and other BJP and the RSS leaders while at the ground level, the party was no different with its leaders equally involved in such activities.
Lashing out at Mr Majithia, Mr Bajwa asked him since when had he turned into Congress high command deciding whether he would continue as PPCC chief or not. He reminded the Revenue Minister that he carried taint of allegation of his involvement in drug smuggling.
He said in case these allegations were false, Mr Majithia should have sit on fast to prove his innocence but be lacked moral courage. He should have resigned rather than facing continued humiliation at every level, even from the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal.
He referred to the full page ad inserted by the BJP in the newspapers on April 30, 2014 in which Mr Narendra Modi promised to root out the drug menace from the state. He said that ad itself was a proof of drug mafia operating in Punjab but that was never rebutted by the Badal government.
