Excise Policy: AAP becomes a synonym for controversy: Bajwa

Jalandhar: After the Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, Raghav Chadha was named in the second supplementary chargesheet in the Delhi liquor policy case, Punjab’s Leader of the Opposition (LoP), Partap Singh Bajwa on Tuesday said that the AAP had become a synonym for controversy.

Senior Congress Leader said that it was another day and another leader of AAP was in the news for the wrong reason. This time it is the “actual” and super CM of Punjab Raghav Chadha. The Enforcement Directorate has named Raghav Chadha in the supplementary chargesheet in the Delhi excise policy case.

Bajwa also termed the Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann as a dummy CM of Punjab. He said that the office of CM is in fact being handled by RS MP Raghav Chadha.

“At first, it was Delhi’s former Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia. Now AAP’s RS MP Raghav has been named in the same case. I wonder who is going to be next. Is it going to be Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal? Who knows?”, quipped Bajwa.

While citing a news report, Bajwa said that C Arvind, Manish Sisodia’s former secretary, told the ED that a meeting was held at the former deputy Chief Minister’s residence, which was also attended by Chadha. C Arvind also said in the statement that the meeting was attended by a senior IAS officer from Punjab, and several other officers from the Punjab Excise Directorate.

“Hereafter, I urge the Enforcement Directorate to continue its probe into Punjab’s liquor policy to bring it to a logical end. ED must take serious note of the same and conduct a thorough probe on Punjab’s liquor policy for 2022-23”, Bajwa added.