AAP leader Raghav Chadha during a press conference. (File) A day after AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal accused Punjab’s Congress government of lacking courage to arrest SAD leader Bikram Majithia, party’s Punjab co-incharge Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha Sunday accused Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi of having directed the Punjab Police not to arrest the Akali leader. Chadha said that a senior police officer had confided to the party that directions have been issued by the CM not to take any action against Majithia after registering an FIR against him in the drugs case.
“It is inexplicable that the accused has not been arrested even after rejection of his anticipatory bail. AAP had revealed even before the FIR was registered that the real intention was just to fool the people of Punjab and not arrest Bikram Singh Majithia,” said Chadha.
The AAP leader went on to allege that there had been a secret deal between Charanjit Singh Channi and SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal not to arrest Majithia.
“Channi is a compromised CM. He has entered into a deal with the Badals. Here the prime accused is seen in photographs going around paying obeisance at Harmandir Sahib which is teeming with security and CCTV cameras. How is this possible? There are also reports that he is openly going around in his constituency,” said Chadha.
On Saturday, CM Channi had said that all efforts are being made to arrest Bikram Majithia as per provisions of law. He had added that no personal vendetta was being played out and that AAP was making false accusations of a weak FIR being registered against Majithia.
“Had the FIR been weak would his bail application been rejected by the court,” he questioned.
Commenting on the 100-day report card issues by the Chief Minister on Saturday, Raghav Chadha challenged Channi to name 100 places in Punjab where the sale of drugs has stopped in the last 100 days.
Answering a question he defended the apology tendered to Bikram Majithia by Kejriwal.
“Tendering an apology in a defamation case does not mean that the petitioner has been given a clean chit in drugs case. The scope of the apology is limited because no one wants to be going around the country facing 40 defamation cases,” he said.
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