Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a day before Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Punjab, asked him to come clean on drug issue in the State.
AAP’s Punjab pary affairs’ in-charge Sanjay Singh and party’s State convener Sucha Singh Chhotepur, addressing the media on Sunday, said that the Congress has no right to speak on drug issue as its own leaders are facing charges of indulging into drug trade.
Sanjay said that the Congress initially started drug menace in Punjab followed by Akalis and BJP. “Rahul should not try to befool the people of Punjab as they know the reality of Congress,” he said.
He asked why Congress didn’t take any action its Jalandhar MP Chaudhry Santokh Singh after he was summoned by the ED in drug case. “How would Rahul feel when Chaudhry along with him raise slogans on the issue of drugs tomorrowIJ” he asked.
Sanjay said that what stopped Rahul or Sonia to even inquire the allegation labelled on the then Punjab Congress chief Partap Bajwa by his own party man Capt Amarinder Singh. “Amarinder had written a letter to Sonia Gandhi to sack Bajwa from the post of PPCC chief and take action against him for his alleged relation with drug peddlers and militants. Why after knowing all this Bajwa was awarded with Rajya Sabha seatIJ” asked Sanjay.
He added that every Punjabi want to know the reason of doing nothing against drug peddlers in Punjab even after former Chief Election Commissioner SY Qureshi writing a letter to the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about drugs seized during the election campaign in Punjab in 2012.
Chhotepur said that morally, Congress has no right to talk about the issue and befool the people of Punjab as in drug trade their leaders are no less than Akalis and BJP.
He asked Rahul to abstain for organising drama on the issue of drug. “Rahul knows the statistics about drug in Punjab. But, when it comes to his men, he ignores it,” he said.
Chhotepur said that how can we expect that Congress can cure drug problem in Punjab when its own leaders in presence of Capt Amarinder Singh talks about opening opium and poppy vends after coming into power in Punjab.
Interestingly, Congress former minister Gurchet Bhullar and his son Sukhpal Bhullar during a public address promised people to legalise poppy and opium in Punjab. He also asked the reason behind Amarinder opposing CBI inquiry against Bikram Majithia in drug case.