:dateline:Day after Punjab Cabinet Minister Bikramjit Majithia filed�defamation cases against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders including Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Sanjay Singh and Ashish Khetan, AAP MP Bhagwant Mann today reiterated that he (Majithia) is a �Drug Lord�. �
Majithia had filed cases against AAP leaders on Friday, May 20 at an Amritsar court. �The case�was filed in the court of civil judge, senior division, Gurpartap Singh, under Sections 499, 500, 34 and 120-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). �Majithia held AAP leaders responsible for tarnishing his image, along with that of his family members.
While addressing a press conference here earlier today, Mann dared Majithia to file defamation case against him as well.��I have said it earlier also and now too I repeat thousand times that Majithia is a kingpin of multi-crore drug racket spread in Punjab, why doesn’t�he file a defamation case against me�, he asked.
“In past,�Sukhbir Badal has denied�any drug menace in Punjab and his Cabinet Minister Surjit Jiyani has ruled�out even a single drug-addict in the state, but on the other hand, Chief Minister Parkash Badal announces opening of country�s first Women Rehab Centre for de-addiction in the state,” Mann said. �”If there is no drug menace in Punjab, where is the need to open Rehab Centre, that too, especially for women?”
In response to the defamation case,�Bhagwant Mann�said,��Badals should visit Maqbool Pura of Amritsar and Sur Singh village of Tarn Taran to assess how drugs ruined several families.��National leaders of AAP against whom Majithia has filed defamation cases, term him Drug Lord, when they visit Punjab, but I along with entire Punjab team call him kingpin of drug racket every day. Why he does not file defamation case against entire Punjab team, including me?� he asked.
“Parkash Badal had taken resignation of his Cabinet Minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur, days after he was summoned by Enforcement Director for his drug-connection, but when it comes to Majithia, Badal did not take even one minute to issue clean chit to him (Majithia),” Mann said terming the act of Badal as �politics of double standards�.
Instated of ordering CBI enquiry against Majithia, Badal defended him and conspicuously State Congress Chief Captain Amarinder Singh also opposed CBI probe, Mann claimed.
�It is not just us, who accuse Majithia for his involvement in the drug racket, rather arrested DSP Jagdish Bhola in multi-crore drug racket and his (Majithia�s) two close associates Maninder Singh Aulakh and Jagjit Singh Chahal, who were arrested for drug paddling, revealed his name as their ‘Boss’ in front of ED,” Mann said further.
Mann claimed that AAP has enough evidences to substantiate Majithia�s involvement in the drug racket, which all would be produced before the court at an appropriate time.
