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Chandigarh, Aam Admi Party (AAP) today said exposure of the foreign bank accounts of Raninder Singh, son of State Congress Chief Captain Amarinder Singh is just a ‘tip of the iceberg’ of ‘money-spinning’ activity of Royal family of Patiala and demanded immediate resignation of State Congress Chief Captain Amarinder Singh from his post on moral ground.
Aam Admi Party (AAP) Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann demanded free & fair probe into the allegations against Raninder and vowed that PPCC Chief Captain Amarinder should immediately reveal list of all his assets including foreign bank accounts and make it public to come clean.
“All financial benefits to Raninder Singh were managed between 2002 and 2007, when his father Captain Amarinder Singh was Chief Minister of Punjab and there is every possibility of misuse of his ( Amarinder’s) political clout for financial gain”, State Convener of Aam Admi Party, Sucha Singh Chhotepur said.
Earlier on December 3, last year, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the floor of Rajya Sabha cited a notification by the Swiss government and “reinforced” the charge that Preneet Kaur, a Minister in the UPA government and wife of former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had an undisclosed bank account in Switzerland, Mann and Chhotepur revealed.
Conspicuously no further action was taken in this issue by BJP led union government, perhaps in an attempt to have ‘political patch-up’ with Amarinder, who was appeared to be turned ‘rebel’ against Congress High Command at that time, AAP leaders apprehended.
It is pertinent to mention here that a Ludhiana court has summoned Raninder Singh after the Income-tax (I-T) authorities submitted a challan against him alleging that he (Raninder) was a settler of the UK-based Jacaranda Trust and beneficiary of at least four companies with assets worth Rs 460 crore.
Raninder was accused of producing false accounts and documents as well as lying under oath in connection with the UK based trust and money in four companies.
Raninder not only lied in front of IT authorities, but deliberately changed his signature in fraudulent manner.
IT Department has claimed that it was Amarinder who had directed the foreign companies to transfer a multi-crore property Unit P29 Marina Mansions, Dubai.
