Entire leadership to present itself before Vigilance on Monday
Chandigarh – Sounding an aggressive counter offensive against vendetta by the Aam Aadmi Party government against its leaders, the Punjab Congress today declared that the entire state leadership will present itself before the vigilance bureau on Monday at 11 am as it was fed up with the daily dose of allegations against its leaders by the government.
The Congress leaders also sounded a stern warning to all those officials involved in investigation asking them to beware of overstepping their brief as eventually they have to serve and stay in Punjab only and they will ensure that law catches up with them as it has caught up with others even after retirement.
Addressing a joint press conference the Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and the Congress Legislative Party leader in the Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa, former Deputy Chief Ministers OP Soni and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, former ministers Brahm Mohindra, Sukh Sarkaria, Pargat Singh, Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon, Raj Kumar Chabbewal, Sanjay Talwar and others said that they will be meeting the Governor seeking probe into the liquor policy in Punjab.
The CLP leader said, like Delhi the liquor policy in Punjab is a sellout in which the AAP leaders in connivance with some senior officials have defrauded the state by thousands of crores of rupees, besides rendering hundreds of Punjabi traders jobless.
He also announced that the party will seek a probe by the National Investigating Agency against the illegal sand mining going on along the border areas which even the Border Security Force had warned was a threat to national security.
“Let the two ministers concerned heading the excise and the mining ministry in Punjab be ready for the same fate as that of Manish Sisodia and Satyender Jain in Delhi”, he remarked.
Ridiculing the AAP attempt to divert attention from its corrupt practices in Delhi and Punjab by resorting to vendetta and witch-hunt in Punjab, the Punjab Congress president Warring said, while in Delhi they were crying persecution and victimhood in Punjab they were resorting to worse type of vendetta against their political opponents.
He alleged that the AAP had launched severe vendetta against the Congress targeting all sorts of leaders from grassroots level like panches and sarpanches up to the state level leaders and former ministers.
Referring to the vendetta against the PCC Working President Bharat Bhushan Ashu, a former Food and Civil Supplies Minister, he said he had only implemented the policy passed by the cabinet. “Is it the minister’s job to verify the registration number of the vehicles?” he asked, while responding to the allegations against Ashu.
Comparing it with Delhi Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s case the PCC president said, he (Sisodia) had taken the decision individually. “If Sisodia is not responsible for the decision he took individually, how can a former minister be responsible alone for a policy passed by the cabinet?” he asked, while remarking, “those living in glasshouses don’t throw stones at others”.
The PCC president was clear and categorical about the Vigilance Bureau officials warning them not to breach their brief.
“Inquire and investigate, lawfully and legally whatever you want to investigate, but beware, if anyone of you indulges in anything illegal and unlawful to please your current bosses, you shall be responsible for the consequences as you have to serve here and stay here and we will ensure that law catches up with you till your last breath, not just after your retirement”, the Warring warned.
