Majitha, October 26: Senior Congress leaders, including Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and Dera Baba Nanak MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, on Wednesday launched a crusade against SAD general secretary and MLA Bikram Singh Majithia on his home turf.
The assembly of Congress leaders is being seen as an attempt to mount pressure on Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, who has often been accused of going “soft” against Akalis, particularly Majithia in the multi-crore drugs case.
Though the CM has constituted a special task force (STF) to take on the drug menace, it could hardly come out with any concrete action plan. Capt Amarinder has also declared that his government “will not indulge in vendetta politics”.
Congress workers termed today’s assembly as a thanksgiving gesture of the leaders for the party’s splendid win in the Gurdaspur bypoll, but sources said it appeared irrelevant to hold such an assembly in the Majitha constituency. With the exception of Ajnala MLA Harpartap Singh Ajnala or Gurdaspur MLA Barinderjit Singh Pahra, none of the Amritsar MLAs, including OP Soni, Suni Dutti, Inderbir Bolaria and Raj Kumar Verka, was present.
Justifying Majitha as an appropriate venue for the occasion, Sidhu said: “Majitha was made infamous as the den of all evils by the previous regime. There could be no other place better than this to challenge Majithia.”
On the absence of several local MLAs, Sidhu said earlier a meeting was held by 10-12 MLAs here recently and all were invited by Lalli Majithia and Randhawa.
“I came here on an invitation. It’s a joint forum of over 50 MLAs who want to convey people’s voice to Captain saab (CM), who is our undisputed leader and supreme. It is not an offence. Majithia must face action for his wrongdoings in the past 10 years. We ought to live up to people’s expectations,” he added.
