Former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi. (File pic: PTI)
The previous chief minister had saved a low profile, however with the issuance of summons towards him by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, he appears to have gone on the offensive
Adopting an aggressive posture on the summons issued to him by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, former chief minister and senior Congress chief Charanjit Singh Channi hit out on the Bhagwant Mann authorities, claiming that he was being maligned by the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) to divert consideration from its failure on a number of fronts within the final one 12 months.
Channi had earlier been summoned to seem earlier than the Vigilance Bureau in a disproportionate property case on Wednesday however now has been given time until April 20 to seem earlier than it on his request. Talking completely to News18.com, Channi lambasted the AAP authorities, alleging that such summons have been geared toward “harassing” the highest management of the Congress.
“It’s an try and defame the highest management of the Congress. The work that I’ve finished within the 111 days of my tenure as CM, the current authorities just isn’t with the ability to match as much as that. So it’s by these steps that they’re threatening and defaming us,” mentioned a belligerent Channi who had to date maintained silence on the most recent summons.
Channi had saved a low profile, however with the issuance of the summons, he appears to have gone on the offensive. “The fees are trash. If they’d have had something important, they’d have taken motion. However they don’t have anything. It’s simply that they need to harass the senior management,” he mentioned.
Forward of the Might 10 Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll, the Congress is making an attempt to show the summons towards Channi into an electoral situation by siding with him whilst associates had alleged that the chief had been “sidelined” by the occasion’s high brass.
Popping out in help of Channi, PPCC chief Amarinder Raja Warring mentioned that since AAP was dropping floor within the run-up to the Jalandhar election, it was resorting to a witch hunt. In addition to Channi, former ministers Brahm Mohindra and Vijay Inder Singla have been issued notices by the Vigilance Bureau.
Referring to “makes an attempt being made to implicate Channi”, the Congress chief maintained that the current authorities was anti-Dalit and was concentrating on the Dalit management of the occasion. “Be it Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, or now Charanjit Singh Channi, this regime has nothing to point out towards them and is simply satisfying its ego to punish the Dalit inhabitants who didn’t vote for AAP,” Warring mentioned.
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