Hitting back at Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sunil Kumar Jakhar and Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on the gangsters issue, the Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday challenged the two leaders that let any sitting High Court judge conduct an inquiry of the allegations levelled against senior Congress leader Avtar Henry and his son and sitting MlA Junior Henry “for their indulgence in promoting gangsters”.
“It is strange to see that the pot calling the kettle black on gangsters issue as the families of the gangster Vicky Gounder as well as Sukha Kahlwan has clearly stated that it was none other than Avtar Henry and Junior Henry and other Congress leaders who promoted them into illegal activities and goondaism,” said SAD’s senior leader and MP Balwinder Singh Bhunder.
He said that not only this, but a known gangster of the country Raja Bhaiyya had visited Congress leader Kushaldeep Singh alias Kikki Dhillon for the reasons best known to him and the Congress party.
“Instead of getting inquiry done into these allegations and earlier too levelled by the other gangsters and their families, the Congress duo has tried to defame Akali Dal on the issue,” he said.
Bhunder said that if the government is serious to take the truth out before the public, it should immediately order inquiry into the allegations levelled by the families of gangsters against the Congress leaders by none other than a sitting High Court Judge. Such an inquiry will unearth the truth behind the culture promoted by the Congressmen, he said.
“This is not the first time that Congress leaders have indulged in such illegal activities. This party has old policy to promote violence for achieving its political goals. On a number of occasions, such indulgence has been proved and the Congress was habitual offender to blame others for all the illegal acts done by it,” he said.
lashing out at Jakhar and Sidhu, Bhunder said that they were trying to hide their failures by levelling false, misleading , mischievous and baseless allegations against the SAD. “As a president of the state unit, Jakhar has nothing to show, whereas how is Navjot Sidhu running his department, he has himself admitted about it prior to election of Mayors including Amritsar in the state,” he said.
“Their attempts were nothing but a failed strategy to divert public attention from their own failures as well as failure of the government on all fronts,” said Bhunder.
Bhunder said that the people of the state are already fed up from this government in 11-month rule and they are eagerly waiting for the time when they will teach this Congress party a lesson for betraying the trust of farmers, employees and common man.