Bajwa demands resignation of Majithia and Punjab BJP chief Kamal Sharma

PHAGWARA: Referring to the name of the Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia surfacing this time in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the case of drugs and money laundering in connection with the transfer of investigating officer Naranjan Singh, Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee President Partap Singh Bajwa said the consistent position of the Congress party stands vindicated after the submission made by ED officer Niranjan Singh before the Hon’ble High Court.Talking to this correspondent on the sideline of large scale dharna before sugar mills phagwara on Tuesday afternoon, Bajwa said, in view of the submission of the Enforcement Directorate’s Investigating officer in the drug racket case who has in categorical terms stated that he was transferred because he had summoned Bikram Singh Majithia for his alleged involvement in the multi-thousand crores drug racket has exposed the massive cover up operation that is underway at the behest of the Badal and Majithia families.He said this submission before the Hon’ble High Court assumes immense significance as the Enforcement Directorate comes under the administrative control of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and given the fact that Majithia’s sister Harsimrat Kaur Badal is a cabinet colleague of the Union Finance Ministerand this development further reflects the collusion of the BJP in shielding the kingpins of this devastating drug racket that has international ramifications.Bajwa demanded immediate resignations of Majithia and Punjab BJP President Kamal Sharma immediately on moral grounds after exposing their direct or indirect role in anti-social activities.
He said this buttresses the stand of the Congress party that the highest echelons of the Punjab Government and the Union Government are interfering with the investigation process with a clear objective to shield Majithia and to obfuscate the course of justice. Bajwa said the entire pattern and the systematic attempts made by the Government beginning from the intimidation of ED officers, then to transfer orders of the Investigating Officer and subsequently of the Special Public Prosecutor furthers demonstrates the hypocrisy of the Prime Minister who had made bogus assurances in his much touted “Man Ki baat” of eradicating the drug menace.
He said moreover the developments of the past few days wherein close aides of the State BJP President have been held accepting bribes to shield and protect drug smugglers from criminal prosecution leaves no manner of doubt that the BJP and the Akali Dal are joint venture partners in this drug trafficking racket and are collectively ruining the future of the State to satiate their greed for money.He said it was not just the Akali leaders whose names had surfaced as now even the state BJP president Kamal Sharma had also become part of this club following the arrest of his associates whom he had been patronizing.Bajwa said with the arrest Sharma’s PA Jimmy Sandhu, the beans had been spilled. Moreover, the names of several of his other associates from Ferozepur had appeared in the case and as such, the BJP was too a tainted party.The PPCC chief reiterated the demand for a court monitored CBI probe into the drug smuggling in Punjab involving both the Akali and the BJP leaders.