Alleging that a “mining mafia” in Punjab is extorting money from owners of stone crushing units, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday vowed to put an end to the menace "within 24 hours" if his party comes to power in the 2017 Assembly election.
Once voted to power, AAP would set up a commission to review such cases and take action against officials who had lodged them, said Kejriwal, who is on a five-day tour of Punjab to reach out to voters ahead of the Assembly elections.
Addressing a rally here, he said, "I am shocked to know that legal crusher owners have to pay 'goonda tax or jizya' to the mining mafia in Punjab. I vow that within 24 hours of AAP's coming into power, this will be curbed in the state,"
Reacting to reports of a large number of posters which had sprung up in Jalandhar questioning his governance record, the Delhi CM hit out at the Akali Dal saying they had ruined the state during their 10-year rule.
Kejriwal also claimed that no government could have achieved in 65 years what his government had accomplished in one year in Delhi.
He also met people from different walks of life, including industrialists, advocates, shopkeepers and members of the Christian community during this visit here.
