The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had been raising voice againstthe ill-practices and misconducts carried out by the Punjab Chief MinisterCaptain Amarinder Singh and his ministers, time and again. However, fromillegal factories, mining, land, transportation, to illicit liquor and drugtrade, Captain Amarinder Singh and his Congress minister were looting Punjab atthe hands of all kinds of 'mafias'. Addressing the media, during a pressconference convened here on Thursday, AAP Punjab incharge and MLA from DelhiJarnail Singh said that the party had raised the issue multiple times thatCaptain Amarinder Singh and his coterie were involved in giving a boost to theland mafia and were promoting it.
He said that the recent court documents suggest that thebrothers of Captain's ministers were themselves the 'mafia lords' of the landmafia nexus. Jarnail Singh said that a recent High Court judgement shows thesort of malpractice that minister Balbir Sidhu's brother Amarjeet Singh Sidhualias Jeeti was involved in. "The land that was allotted by the governmentto the panchayat was grabbed illegally by the company Lanchester InfrastructureAssociates, a company in which Balbir Singh Sidhu's brother Amarjeet SinghSidhu is a partner," he added. He said that according to the court documents,the government had allotted a piece of land to the Panchayat of Manakpur Kalarvillage in Mohali.
"This land was a high priced land whose worth was veryhigh. Balbir Singh Sidhu misused his ministerial powers to forcefully pass aresolution in the Panchayat which allowed the company Lanchester InfrastructureAssociates, involving his brother, to exchange their land with the landallotted to the Panchayat by the government," said Jarnail Singh. Hefurther said that the land that was exchanged was of a significantly low value."Exchanging this land with a high worth land amounts to nothing but purecorruption," he added.
Lashing out at Captain Amarinder Singh and his ministers,Jarnail Singh said that this was yet another proof that corruption was rampantunder the rule of Captain Amarinder Singh in the state. Demanding immediateresignation of Balbir Sidhu for his brother's involvement in such corruptpractices, he said, "This has proved the fact that Balbir Singh Sidhu andhis brother are themselves the 'mafia lords' of the land mafia nexus in thestate; the mafia which Captain Amarinder Singh had promised to wipe out when hecame to power." He further said that under the patronage of CaptainAmarinder Singh, his ministers and cronies were running and promoting 'mafias'in Punjab.
The AAP leader further said that it was surprising as towhy Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh was silent over such blatantplunders of the state's wealth. "Captain Saheb, you have never left achance to prove that you have failed as a CM. If you can't control your owncoterie, how will you manage the entire state? You have proven that you are notonly unable but are also unwilling to improve the condition of the state,"said Jarnail Singh. He said that Captain Amarinder had betrayed the people ofPunjab and on February 14, the people will show him the result and will give abefitting reply to all his malpractices.
On the occasion, Rajwinder Kaur, urban president Jalandhar,Principal Prem Kumar rural president Jalandhar, district secretary SubhashSharma, media incharge Tarandip Sunny, social media incharge Sanjeev Bhagat,senior member Dr Shiv Dayal Mali,Dr Sanjeev Sharma, IS Bagga, Darshan LalBhagat, Harcharan Singh, Shivam Yadav, Maninder Pabla, Gurpreet Kaur, RekhaKashyap, event incharge Pardeep Duggal and Ajay Bhagat, were also present.