Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked Punjab Congress to come clean on their leaders' involvement in drug trafficking and demanded their resignation.
In a statement here, senior SAD leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said the first resignation which Congressmen should demand should be of Punjab Congress unit president Partap Singh Bajwa.
The leaders said former chief minister and MP Amarinder Singh had stated on record in a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi that Bajwa was involved in drug trafficking.
"We challenge Bajwa and Punjab Congress to deny the veracity of this letter as well as its contents," they added.
Grewal, who is advisor to the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, said even Jalandhar MP Santokh Chaudhary and Youth Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring were found to be involved in drug trafficking by investigating agencies.
He said while Chaudhary was found to be taking money from drug traffickers, Warring's personal assistant was caught in the drug net.
Cabinet minister Sharanjit Singh Dhillon castigated Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for following such double standards. "On one hand, you falsify a survey for political ends and try to portray Punjabis as drug addicts. On the other hand, you reward people like Raja Warring whose hands are tainted with drug money," he said.
Advising the Punjab Congress to desist from double standards and selective memory, the leaders asked the Punjab Congress to tell the Punjabis whether Bajwa, Chaudhary and Warring were guilty of colluding with drug traffickers or not.
They said since evidence pointed towards the guilt of the Congress leaders with Amarinder giving a testimonial against Bajwa, Congress should throw light on the activities of its own leaders while talking about drug smuggling.
