Chandigarh, September 21:
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday accused the Congress of shielding its ‘venal leaders’, who had looted Punjab for decades instead of working fo the welfare of the common people.
Addressing a press conference here, AAP’s state senior spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang questioned PCC president, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and Leader of the Oppostion Partap Singh Bajwa as to why they are afraid of a government investigation if their leaders are clean and have done nothing wrong. Kang advised them to not cover up for the ‘sins’ of their dubious leaders just for the sake of politics and to allow the truth to prevail.
Referring to a CBI letter dated July 9, 2021, Kang said that the CBI had written a letter to the state Chief Secretary of Punjab to investigate the then Vidhan Sabha Speaker and senior Congress leader Rana KP Singh for allegedly misusing his position to carry out illegal mining . But the matter was hushed up by the Congress government led by then CM Captain Amarinder Singh.
The CBI had forwarded a complaint along with original documents stating that Rana KP was involved in illegal mining and he was receiving monthly payment worth lakhs from crusher owners through his aides in Ropar and Anandpur Sahib as protection money. But the then government did not probe the matter.
