AAP slams ‘compromised’ Punjab CM over pending arrest of Bikram Majithia  |  Photo Credit: ANI
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday hit out at the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal over the pending arrest of SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia. While party chief Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the Charanjit Singh Channi-led regime lacked the courage to arrest the former lawmaker, AAP leader Raghav Chadha alleged that the CM had “entered into a deal with the Badals”.
“They (the state government) have just registered an FIR and then boasted about it. It took them five years to register an FIR,” Kejriwal said on Sunday, contending that the Congress did not have “the courage to arrest him”. The AAP incidentally is the main opposition party in Punjab.
Majithia, the brother-in-law of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, has been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act based on a 2018 report of a probe into a drug racket in the state. Kejriwal also slammed the state government for not being able to nab Majithia despite his anticipatory bail being rejected in the Mohali court.
“Compromised FIR was filed by the Punjab CM as an election stunt, concerning the upcoming polls. Channi is a compromised Chief Minister. He has entered into a deal with the Badals,” alleged Chadha.
With mere months left for Assembly elections in the state, the AAP national convener had promised on Saturday that his party would ensure good and free of cost education to the children of the poor and the downtrodden. Kejriwal also paid obeisance at the Ram Tirath temple (the ashram of Maharishi Valmiki and the birthplace of Lord Ram’s sons Luv and Kush) and Kejriwal agreed with the Sant Samaj’s demand to dissolve the temple shrine board.
“The AAP will accept the demand of the Sant Samaj and dissolve the shrine board and hand over the responsibility of running the temple to society,” he had promised.