Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has come below the opposition attack after the Enforcement Directorate recovered cash and valuables Rs 10 crore from his nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey and one Sandeep Singh for the length of a raid in connection with the mining mafia nexus in the disclose.
Opposition BJP has accused Charanjit Singh Channi of being hand-in-glove with the mining mafia and has demanded his resignation.
“The ED raids indulge in established that Congress has been running sand mafias in the disclose below the nostril of the executive minister,” BJP national secretary Tarun Chugh stated.
Chugh debunked the executive minister’s argument that the ED raids were allotment of the Centre’s vendetta against his authorities for the Firozpur incident. Chugh stated that the case against mining mafias used to be registered in 2018 after due inquiry when the Congress used to be in energy on the Centre. The ED has easiest done an investigation in an extended-standing case.
Chugh stated recovery of Rs 10 crore from CM’s nephew clearly proved that he used to be indulged in illegal sand mining since a truly very long time. He stated it used to be acknowledged throughout the disclose that the Congress authorities has been patronising liquor and sand mafias in Punjab.
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“The executive minister could presumably simply aloof have confidence the apt responsibility of the case and resign from his put up,” the BJP leader stated.
Aam Aadmi Occasion supremo Arvind Kejriwal additionally centered CM Channi in a tweet and stated that the Punjab CM used to be now not ‘an aam aadmi but a baeman aadmi’ (now not general man but a dishonest man).
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— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 19, 2022
AAP leader Raghav Chadha stated that when Channi’s family indulge in earned so mighty, ‘one can easiest take into accout what Channi could presumably perhaps want earned’.
“If that is so mighty wealth used to be created in 111 days, how mighty Channi would indulge in collected in 5 years. Crores of rupees are seized from the dwelling of Channi’s relative. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and PPCC president Navjot Sidhu could presumably simply aloof sure their stand,” Raghav Chadha stated.
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) January 19, 2022
Raghav Chadha stated that the ED received easiest 10 mufflers from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s home, and in Punjab, it seized Rs 10 crores from Channi’s relative’s home.
“Chief Minister Channi is running a sand mafia in his space. Channi and his family indulge in earned crores of rupees from their affiliation with the sand mafia. To this level, files about illegal property price Rs 56 crore has been received. A amount of gold and property papers indulge in been recovered,” Raghav Chadha stated.
“Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, who pretends to be a general man, could presumably simply aloof answer that the build did his family in finding so mighty money from?”, Chadha asked.
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Congress leaders Randeep Surjewala and Punjab minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa pointed the finger at Captain Amarinder Singh and accused the BJP of planting the money to defame Charanjit Channi.
Surjewala stated that ED used to be now not the Enforcement Directorate however the Election Division which used to be being misused to silence the opposition.
“The ED now manner Election Division which has crossed the limit of vindictiveness. Charanjit Singh Channi and his family has nothing to build with this case. The BJP used to be looking to fetch revenge from a Dalit chief minister” Randeep Singh Surjewala stated.
Reacting to the allegations levelled by Sukhjinder Randhawa, passe chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh stated Channi used to be looking to conceal his family’s crimes.
“ED doesn’t file to me @CHARANJITCHANNI. Nor did I plant the money seized out of your kin. So discontinuance blaming me for your loved ones’s crimes. As I repeatedly recount, the laws takes its have confidence course, something that @INCIndia forgot when they accused me of defending culprits,” Amarinder Singh stated in a tweet.
ED doesn’t file to me @CHARANJITCHANNI. Nor did I plant the money seized out of your kin. So discontinuance blaming me for your loved ones’s crimes. As I repeatedly recount, the laws takes its have confidence course, something that @INCIndia forgot when they accused me of defending culprits.
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) January 19, 2022
Close threatening us with central companies: Channi warns BJP
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday lashed out on the BJP-dominated authorities for utilizing central companies to build tension and threaten his family as he began his marketing campaign for the disclose assembly polls, scheduled for February 20.
Addressing the click conference in Chandigarh, the CM stated that ED’s raids at homes and offices belonging to his nephew Bhupinder Singh alias Honey into money laundering allegations linked to the 2018 illegal sand mining case, is a “vendetta politics” as Honey used to be now not even booked in this three-year-used case. He stated that Honey’s identify had now not even been mentioned in the price sheet and now with out observe when elections are on the corner, ED reinitiated the investigation to probe Honey’s alleged hyperlinks with Kudratdeep Singh, the CM stated.
“Correct cherish West Bengal, when there indulge in been polls, BJP centered Mamata Banerjee’s family thru central companies, and now they are looking to build tension on me and Congress leaders thru ED raids,” he added.
“ED officials indulge in categorically threatened my relations that they must implicate me and Congress leaders in false circumstances to prevent us from contesting the assembly elections. Right here is now not exquisite for democracy because the BJP authorities is misusing the central companies to persuade the polls,” the CM stated.
Hitting out at BJP-led Union authorities, Channi stated, “It is a case of vengeance as I had staunchly supporters farmers against repealing three-farm criminal pointers enacted by the BJP authorities and retaliated to an alleged security breach for the length of PM Narendra Modi’s check with in Punjab on January 5, which used to be geared towards defaming Punjab to conceal the incapacity of BJP to muster make stronger in Punjab.”
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