Senior AAP leader and MLA from Jagraon, Sarvjit Kaur Manuke, on Thursday denied all the allegations that she had usurped a house owned by an NRI in Jagraon. Manuke said that ever since she became an MLA in 2017, “I have never wronged anyone till today, nor do I have any intention of doing so. This is not the culture of our party.” She said that despite being an MLA for more than six years, “my husband and I do not have any property. We have been living in a rented house for many years. This house too was a rented property. We have a rent agreement and we also paid its rent every month”. She added that when she was asked to vacate the house by the NRI landlord, she asked for a month-and-a-half to find a new house and shift, but they were impatient. “When there was a dispute, I vacated that house. Just a few days ago, I took a new house on rent in the Royal Colony of Jagraon itself, where we have already shifted. I have also returned the keys of that Kothi to the owner. Now I have no relation with any disputed Kothi.” She accused Opposition leaders, especially Congress leader Sukhpal Khaira, of politicising the matter and said that Khaira deliberately tried to defame her. She accused Khaira of encroaching a road and asked where the road near his Ramgarh house has disappeared. Khaira tweeted, “I dare Sarvjit Kaur Manuke MLA to clarify who gave her the authority to remodel the house of real owner Amarjit Kaur NRI from Canada? Does this not amount to trespass in someone’s property? Knowing full well that there’s a dispute why you hand over possession to land mafia Karam Singh why not to DC Jagraon with instructions that possession should go to actual owner? The fact is that Karam Singh is just a frontman the actual possession is still with the MLA who wants to tire out NRI family by engaging them in a bogus litigation thru Karam Singh fake owner.”
