Sukhbir S Badal & SAD’s entire core committee offer to court arrest in DGP Gaurav Yadav’s office.

Sukhbir S Badal & SAD’s entire core committee offer to court arrest in DGP Gaurav Yadav’s office.

(Asserts AAP govt was trying to involve him in a false by raiding premises of his accountants)

(Warns Kejriwal not to misuse the police to target SAD leadership or entire party would descend to the roads)

(Party workers gherao Police headquarters)

Chandigarh 5 February ( Ranjeet Singh Dhaliwal ) : Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today offered to court arrest in DGP Gaurav Yadav’s office in the Police headquarters but insisted chartered accountants as well as employees associated with him should not be persecuted unjustly by the State police on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convener Arvind Kejriwal’s orders.

Addressing the media after meeting the DGP along with the entire core committee of the party during the course of which the Police headquarters was also gheroed by party workers, the SAD president said “the AAP government wants to implicate me in the case involving the status of the 328 ‘swaroop’ of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji. Instead of probing the case relating to the swaroops, the hand picked SIT of the government is raiding business premises of my chartered accountants including the office of Ashwani and Associates who file my income tax as well as my former accountants in Bathinda”. Sukhbir Badal said “all my balance sheets are being illegally seized and my employees and their family members are being pressurised to implicate me in a false case. These actions have nothing to so with the probe into the 328 Swaroop or with the Shiromani Committee”.

He also asserted that all his business concerns were in public domain and that despite claims by chief minister Bhagwant Mann to demolish the Sukh Vilas resort and stop his bus company from plying in Punjab nothing could be done as everything was legal. Asserting that the SAD would not take this goondaism lying down, Badal said “the core committee has taken a serious note of the entire issue and decide to come on the roads in case the government continues to harass the SAD leadership in this manner. I also want to warn AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal not to misuse the Punjab Police”.

Badal also asserted that the AAP government had become desperate to stop the rising popularity of the SAD and that a false case had been registered against senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia to  stop him from raising the voice of the people. “Now after the huge response received by the SAD in the Malwa region which AAP perceived to be it’s stronghold in the Samiti and Zila Parishad elections, the government has decided to target me. “This is why SITs which are acting like private armies of AAP have been formed to embroil SAD leaders in false cases”. Badal said try as it might, the SAD would not be cowed down by such tactics of the AAP government and would go to the people and expose it. 

Senior leaders present at DGP office: SAD president: Sukhbir Singh Badal, Ex Ministers: Balwinder Singh Bhunder, Bikram Singh Majithia, Janmeja Singh Sekhon, Dr Daljit Singh Cheema, Sikander Singh Maluka, Maheshinder Singh Grewal, Hira Singh Gabria, Sucha Singh Langah, Sharanjit Singh Dhillon, Baldev Singh Mann, Former DSGMC presidents: Paramjit Singh Sarna, Manjit Singh GK, NK Sharma (Ex MLA), Mantar Singh Brar (Ex MLA), Gurbachan Singh Babbehali (Ex MLA), Joginder Singh Jindu (Ex MLA), Ranjit Singh Dhillon (Ex MLA), Harpreet Singh kotbhai (Ex MLA), S R Kaler (Ex MLA), Baldev Singh Khehra (Ex MLA), Varinder Singh Bajwa (Ex MP)

Other members of the core committee:

Gurpreet Singh Raju Khanna, Kamal Chatly, Arshdeep Singh Kler, Darbara Singh Guru, Sukhdeep Singh sukar, Gurcharan Singh Grewal (SGPC member), Sarabjit Singh Jhinjar (YAD President), Ranbir Singh (SOI President)