Jalandhar, November 14
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Punjab former president Vijay Sampla today stated that by deliberately withholding original records from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Bhagwant Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government has itself confessed to deep-rooted corruption inside the Chief Minister’s Office.
Reacting to the CBI’s counter-affidavit filed before the Supreme Court—which exposes how the Punjab Chief Secretary is stonewalling the investigation involving Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Rajbir Singh Ghuman—the Punjab BJP said the AAP regime’s “Kattar Imaandar” facade has been shredded before the highest court of the land.
“If the Mann government and its CMO officials have nothing to hide, why are they terrified of handing over original files?” Sampla questioned. “First, Punjab Police sat on seven ED communications regarding middlemen trading transfers, postings, and tenders. Now, defying explicit directions from both the Supreme Court and the Punjab & Haryana High Court to cooperate ‘in letter and spirit’, the Chief Secretary is supplying incomplete photocopies under the lame excuse of ‘administrative inconvenience’ and appointing unconnected nodal officers to sabotage the probe.”
The BJP noted that from WhatsApp chats to draft transfer lists recovered from intermediaries linked to the CMO, the nexus of corruption stands exposed. Calling the obstruction a blatant contempt of court orders, the Punjab BJP demanded that the state government immediately surrender all original documents to the CBI and stop misusing state machinery to shield corrupt insiders.
