Facing allegations of vendetta and highhandedness against its opponents during its decade long tenure, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is raising the same issue now. The party is mincing no words to voice its anger against the ruling Congress and even approached the state police chief on Wednesday over the issue.
Going a step ahead, it brought the “victims” of Congress oppression before the media to corroborate its allegations. The party also released a list of 50 odd false cases “registered for not voting for the Congress”.
Senior SAD leaders and former Ministers Bikram Singh Majithia and Daljit Singh Cheema, addressing the media, said that there was a clear cut pattern to “punish” people who had voted against the Congress by registering non-bailable cases against them.
“Many such cases have come to the notice of SAD president Sukhbir Badal during his Jabar Virdohi lehar visit to Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency. But we feel this is a pan-Punjab epidemic. We will not let this conspiracy succeed. We will present the entire list of cases as well as victims before the State police chief,” declared Majithia.
“We expect the State police to act in a non-partisan manner and give justice to the victims and also take action against SHOs who are dancing to the tune of Congress leaders and implicating innocents in false cases. If this is not done, we will approach the courts and demand a CBI inquiry into the entire list of politically motivated cases being registered under the Congress regime,” he added.
After SAD delegation on Wednesday submitted a list of “false-politically motivated” cases registered at the instance of Congress leaders in Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency to Punjab DGP Suresh Arora, the police chief assured to get all these cases examined.
The delegation, including Daljit Singh Cheema, Bikram Majithia, Suchha Singh langah and lakhbir Singh lodhinangal, told the DGP that Congress leaders were “misusing” the police force at the lower level to get cases registered against their political opponents.