Asking Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal to come clean on the grave charges of sexual exploitation of Punjabi women by AAP leaders, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday demanded immediate dismissal of both Sanjay Singh and Durgesh Pathak from all party posts in Punjab.
Stating that Kejriwal could not simply tweet away his worries, senior SAD leaders Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Maheshinder Singh Grewal said that Delhi Chief Minister must explain to Punjabis as to why he had let such acts of moral turpitude be conducted under his nose.
“Either you expel all leaders of your party, including 15 legislators who are involved in heinous crimes, or it will be taken that you encouraged and are even hand in glove with the perpetrators of such sordid acts. Merely removing few leaders from the government or party posts does not amount to any action and is mere eyewash aimed at befooling the people,” said the Akali leaders.
SAD leaders said that the SAD had all along being maintaining that Kejriwal was presiding over individuals who lusted for money and were in the habit of committing sexual offences. This had now again been proven by the disclosures of AAP MlA Col Devender Sehrawat, they added.
Dhindsa and Grewal said that it was shameful that AAP had not taken any action on the complaint of Col Sehrawat who had written the letter detailing the sexual offences of AAP leaders in the hope of corrective action.
Expressing surprise over AAP leader Sanjay Singh’s reply on the issue that allegations were baseless and were not worth replying to, the senior leaders said “all sin has its origin and Sanjay Singh could not be allowed to be his own judge”.
“Sanjay Singh is presiding over a state unit which has already been accused of massive corruption and now even sexual offences. He has no credibility to give character certifications to himself or his party members,” the Akali leaders added.
Grewal said that since the new disclosures concerned involvement of AAP leaders with multiple Punjabi women, “all political parties should join hands on condemning such immoral behaviour and appeal to the people of Punjab to uproot such people from its soil and send them packing back to Delhi and Uttar Pradesh”.