Taking serious note of the “Badals’ withdrawal” of corruption case against Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh and latter’s claiming that it as his exoneration, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) State convener Gurpreet Singh Waraich on Sunday posed a query asking was it a “political vendetta” or a quid-pro-quo between Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Capt Amarinder.
“The way in which the eight-year-old corruption case is being withdrawn by the Badals indicates towards strong nexus between Badals and Capt Amarinder, who have initiated give and take game by smelling their humiliating defeat in the upcoming assembly polls in 2007,” said Waraich.
He added that both know it very well that after AAP comes to power in Punjab, all corruption cases against them would be taken to the logical conclusion.
“When Amarinder says he is exonerated by the Supreme Court, he must know that he was not exonerated from the offence he has committed, but was only reinstated in Punjab assembly,” Waraich said adding that Capt Amarinder’s claim that he was exonerated by the Apex Court was nothing else, but an attempt to mislead the people of Punjab.
“Rather Punjab and Haryana High Court had ordered reinvestigation in the case, which Badal Government failed to do and complete for obvious reasons,” said AAP convener.
Waraich said that this is the best example where “thief and watchdog are hand in glove” while indicating to the strong nexus of Amarinder-Badal.
“Knowing it very well that they would not come into power in Punjab, Badals and Amarinder hatched a conspiracy to be soft on the corruption charges against each other and Amarinder did it by opposing the CBI probe against Majithia in drug racket and now it was the turn of Badals to reciprocate and they did it by weakening the corruption case against Amarinder,” he said.