‘Scent of scam money’ leads AAP to Punjab CM’s farmhouse
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‘Scent of scam money’ leads AAP to Punjab CM’s farmhouse
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CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators tried to cordon the Siswan farmhouse of Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, saying it was where a big part of Rs 64 crore made in the post-matric scholarship scam had reached. The marching band of Punjab leader of opposition Harpal Singh Cheema ran into police barricades at New Chandigarh T-point short of the farmhouse and served an hour’s detention at the Mullanpur police station for trying to crash through. Condemning the clean chit to minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot as betrayal against the Dalit children, Cheema asked the CM to instead put his minister under arrest and suspend him from the cabinet. Cheema also demanded a special assembly session on the new central farm laws, on which he also sought a meeting with farm unions and agricultural experts. He accused Amarinder of taking the excuse of Covid-19 to “sabotage the farmers’ agitation, while letting off corrupt politicians and the mafia”. Principal Budhram, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Baljinder Kaur, Baldev Singh Jaito, Manjit Singh Bilaspur, Sarvjeet Kaur Manuke, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Meet Hayer, Rupinder Kaur Ruby, and AAP state general secretary Harchand Singh Barsat were the MLAs detained with Cheema, who called Amarinder “the next Hitler after Narendra Modi for stifling the voice of the opposition and running a corrupt government deaf to the farmers and Dalits”.
Publisher
The Times of India
Date
2020-10-09
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Chandigarh