20 April 2023, Chandigarh
The Aam Aadmi Party Punjab Chief Spokesperson Malwinder Singh Kang, in a statement issued from the party office today, reacted strongly to the misappropriation of the Punjab treasury to save the notorious gangster Mukhtar Ansari in Punjab jails during the Congress government.
In his statement, Malwinder Kang said that what would be a bigger example of misuse of people’s money than that during the last Congress government, the most-wanted gangster Mukhtar Ansari was kept as a guest in the jails of the state by misusing power and legal help was also provided for him by spending lakhs of rupees out of Punjab’s exchequer.
He said that due to this political protection of criminals, people’s tax money was misused and it also gave rise to gangsterism. Kang reiterated that those who made prisons ‘safe houses’ for gangsters has now been uncovered and the nexus of some uniformed persons involved in crime and drug trafficking has also been broken by the government. He said that whoever is involved in any anti-Punjab activity will not be spared.
On the other hand, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, also tweeted on this matter, “The criminal of UP was kept in Ropar Jail with comfort and facilities. Despite the issuance of warrant 48 times, he was not produced. expensive lawyers were hired…the cost was 55 lakhs..I returned the file with the expenses from the people’s tax.. Thinking about recovering the expenses from the ministers on whose orders this decision was made.”
