Written by: Express News Service
2 min readJalandharDec 1, 2009 03:51 AM IST
First published on: Dec 1, 2009 at 03:51 AM IST
Reiterating his allegation of political vendetta against the state government,former chief minister Amarinder Singh on Monday said it had registered false cases against Congress workers and vowed to take to task police officials committing excesses if voted to power.
Amarinder,who was here to meet Congress workers who had allegedly fallen victims to “police atrocities”,said if voted to power,the party would constitute a high-powered commission to review the cases against Congress workers. “I assure you that if things do not stop here,not only a high-powered commission will be constituted to look into the role of such cops,but Article 311 of the Constitution will also be invoked to dismiss from service those found guilty of committing excesses on innocents,” he added.
On the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS),Amarinder said,“I guarantee,and want to tell the promoters,that this deal would be scrapped if and when Congress comes to power.” When questioned why Congress leaders were working on the same issues but separately — CLP leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has also filed a complaint and issued a notice to Punjab CM over the PIMS issue — the former CM said he was ready to join Bhattal’s campaign against the “PIMS scam”.
Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira had organised the meeting,and also released a copy of an “open letter” written to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal listing specific “false” cases registered against Congress workers,cases where Congressmen were badly injured but no cases were registered against the accused,and the two cases which were quashed by the High Court.
Bannerism
On stage,a wide banner was installed carrying caricatures of Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal and former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur . Under Bibi’s image,she was sarcastically mentioned as the ‘new DSP of Bholath’,while the caricature of the deputy CM had the words ‘Badlakhori da Nawan Naam,Sukhbir Badal (The new name of political vendetta — Sukhbir Badal)’ below it.
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