A day after the Shiromani Akali Dal released its first list of 69 candidates for 2017 Punjab polls, Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday termed it ‘bunch of mafia operators’.
“By giving ticket to the people associated with illegal trade of sand, land, cable, transport and drug, the SAD had accepted its association with these anti-social elements,” said AAP’s campaign committee chairman and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann.
Mann said the SAD is shielding every kind of mafia in the State and now trying to send them to Vidhan Sabha. “But people of Punjab will not let them do this. Punjabis are fed up with the atrocities of SAD leaders and will reply them with ballot in 2017,” he said.
He said the people of the State know that SAD leaders Rozy Barkandi, Noni Mann, Raju and Makkar are behind the illegal trade of sand, land and drug in Punjab.
“No person, with tainted background, is included in the list announced by the AAP. But it is hard to find any candidate with clean image in the list of the SAD. The AAP will form Government in 2017 and tame the mafia operating in the State,” he avowed.