Chandigarh/Kharar, September 10
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said demanded that a criminal FIR must against the Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema. Addressing a massive gathering of thousands of enthusiastic party workers here along with Kharar halka incharge Ravinder Singh Khaira, Sukhbir said, “The manner in which the family of Gulzar Singh, who had committed suicide after being harassed for questioning minister Harpal Cheema on rampant availability of drugs had been pressured to conduct his cremation is nothing short of a criminal act. Now the family has come out openly against the AAP government and wants justice for Gulzar Singh. Since the victim had given a dying declaration against Harpal Cheema, a case would have to be registered against him”.
Addressing the gathering, Sukhbir promised that the constituency would be developed in a holistic manner once the SAD took over the reins of the State with Nawa Gaon being included in New Chandigarh and new projects like a race course and a wildlife safari taking ground.
Asserting that the latest incident followed a spate of cases of torture and suicide in Sheron and Toor Banjara villages in which two persons were tortured for showing a black flag to the chief minister and for questioning finance minister Harpal Cheema on the rampant sale of drugs in the State, Mr Sukhbir Badal said “this is the change AAP has brought into Punjab politics”.
The SAD president while shaming the chief minister for brandishing a ‘hara pen’ while claiming it would bring in a revolution by being used for public good, said, “All this green pen has done is silence the voice of dissent and loot the resources of the State”. He said today again in a shocking incident, the Punjab Police had tortured a youth – Chamkaur Singh to such an extent in Dhuri that he consumed a poisonous substance in police lock up.
Badal said even as all this was happening, Bhagwant Mann was indulging in lies and mimicry in fake ‘lok milni’ programmes and strutting around on stages in an inebriated condition as had happened at Ghudda village recently. “Simultaneously he is also handing over clean chits to thugs, drug lords and even rapists as had occurred recently with evidence revealing his wife Gurpreet Kaur Mann had taken a bribe of Rs five crore to let off a serial rapist from police custody”. He said the manner in which the chief minister had inducted a gangster – Gurpreet Singh Sekhon into AAP and made him halka incharge of Zira despite the fact that the latter had 50 criminal cases pending against him revealed his true stand on tackling gangsters. He announced that SAD would tackle the menace of gangsters and drugs once it came to power by enacting special laws which would allow seizure of their properties and a minimum jail term of twenty years.