Former Punjab Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal’s recent statement about how some officials had offered her to carry out bombings in the state to create terror and help her manipulate the elections has created a lot of uproar in Punjab. Now, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab State General Secretary and Media In-charge Baltej Singh Pannu has come forward and expressed his concern regarding the same.
He describes the statement made by Bhattal as shocking and says that it warrants an immediate clarification. Talking further about it he says that Bhattal must publicly name the Congress leaders and advisors who had made these obscure suggestions. He flags that this matter involves public safety concerns and threatens the democratic ethics. He asserts that if such an unsolicited advice was given then the people of Punjab deserve to know who are the culprits behind this.
Pannu says that this remark has exposed the mindset of traditional political parties and he accuses them of being willing to endanger public lives for the sake of retaining power. He says that if such practices are true then this is a serious betrayal of trust that are reposed by the people of Punjab. He reiterated that AAP always has and will stand for transparent and people-centric politics and will continue to call for accountability to ensure that such claims are thoroughly examined and truth comes to light.