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Cong AAP quid pro quo deal to cover each other’s sins through anti Akali vilification campaigns
Chandigarh June 17, 2024
Shiromani Akali Dal today asked the AAP govt in Punjab to come clean on allegations of a massive drug racket operating in the state under official patronage. “The AAP govt has a lot of explaining to do about patronage to drug trade in Punjab. It i mysterious why Bhagwant Mann govt continues to sleep and the Congress keeps lending a helping hand to the Chief Minister through silence and diversionary attacks on Akalis”
This was stated by Senior Akali leader S Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal in a statement here today. Mr Grewal came out strongly against what he described as “the unholy AAP-Congress Jugal-bandi” to exploit Punjab and ruin our youth for drug money.” The Akali leader questioned the seven year-long Conspiracy of Silence between AAP and Congress on the drug menace in Punjab.
“For seven years after SAD govt left office, these anti Sikh and anti Punjab “secret alliance partners” have been refusing to speak even a single word against each other on this menace.,” said the senior Akali leader
He said that the Congress as the principal opposition party kept a stony silence on the failure of the AAP govt to address the issue. “The top leaders of the Cong-AAP jugal-bandi have been protecting each other by not letting the drug menace become an issue in the media. For this, they carry on a sustained media campaign to vilify Akalis through massive propaganda, even though SAD has been out of office for over seven years now,” Mr Grewal said
The Akali leader further said that the Congress silence over the growing drug menace under AAP govt ” is a part of this quid pro quo deal in return for AAP’s silence over the same racket during the previous Congress gregime. “They keep the focus against Akalis just to keep people’s attention away from each others’ sins against Punjab’s youth. ” said Mr Grewal
The SAD leader reminded the people that this “anti-Punjab Congress-AAP jugal-bandi” was at its loudest during the SAD govt led by Sardar Parkash Singh Badal. “These parties combined and conspired to raise a massive national storm against the Akali government on one issue after the other. They launched an unprecedented media campaign to paint the entire Punjabi youth , especially the Sikh youth, as either drug addicts ( nashedi) or separatists or terrorists. This was at a time when the menace was still under check during Akali govt. But the Cong-AAP jugal-bandi sloganeered about a “sixth river” of drugs in Punjab. They sponsored and promoted films like “Udta Punjab”. Rahull Gandhi openly declared that 70% of Punjab’s youth was drug addicts (nashedi), “Where is Rahul Gandhi today?”
Once the Akali govt was out of the way, said Mr Grewal, the drug issue no longer remained on AAP-Cong ‘s agenda, said Mr Grewal, adding that these two alliance partners as well as their supporting Jahebandis have been rewarding one another to keep Akalis under a vilification attack “Where are the Jathebandis today when the Sikh youth are either being killed on Haryana or Delhi borders or dying in the raging drug menace? The Congress and AAP are all together in this conspiracy of silence,” said the Akali leader.
The Akali leader regretted that even the media got used by these anti-Punjab parties in their vilification campaign against Akalis in order to cover up the misdeeds of the new govt and hide its involvement in the drug menace under the carpet.
“Now, it has taken a spate of ghastly drug deaths for a section of the press to finally wake up and recognise the ground reality.”
Mr Grewal said that the AAP-Congress secret alliance has a lot of explaining to do on conspiracy of silence even over the deaths of Punjabis in the prime of their youth,” said the Akali leader.
