Chandigarh, Sep 10 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Thursday said that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was using his self-proclaimed “green pen” for loot and torture with the latest incident of a youth consuming poison in despair after being tortured at the Dhuri police station.
The Akali Dal chief was addressing a gathering in Kharar town, and he promised that the constituency would be developed in a holistic manner once the party took over the reins of the state.
Asserting that the latest incident followed a spate of cases of torture and suicide in Sheron and Toor Banjara villages in which two people were tortured for showing a black flag to the Chief Minister and for questioning Finance Minister Harpal Cheema on the rampant sale of drugs, Badal said: “This is the change AAP has brought into Punjab politics”.
Shaming the Chief Minister for brandishing a ‘green pen’ while claiming it would bring in a revolution by being used for public good, he said: “All this green pen has done is silence the voice of dissent and loot the resources of the state”. He said today, again in a shocking incident, the police tortured youth Chamkaur Singh to such an extent in Dhuri that he consumed a poisonous substance in police lock-up.
Badal said even as all this was happening, CM Mann was indulging in lies and mimicry in fake ‘Lok Milni’ programmes and strutting around on stages in an inebriated condition.
“Simultaneously he is also handing over clean chits to thugs, drug lords and even rapists”. He said the manner in which the Chief Minister had inducted alleged gangster Gurpreet Singh Sekhon into AAP and made him the party’s in-charge of Zira, despite the fact that he had 50 criminal cases pending against him, revealed his true stand on tackling gangsters.
Badal announced that the party would tackle the menace of gangsters and drugs once it came to power by enacting special laws which would allow seizure of their properties and a minimum jail term of 20 years.
–IANS
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