Maintaining that corruption has become the bane of the society, Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar asked Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday to probe the leaders of all political parties in the state to ascertain if anyone received money from corrupt practices.
Jakhar also produced his June 16 letter to Mann, seeking a probe to find the end beneficiaries of drug money. He alleged that "several MLAs who would come on bicycles now own luxury cars and many have farmhouses".
"Now, the senior leaders of the party that ruled the country for 70 years are themselves making serious allegations of corruption against each other. Bhagwant Mannji, you had called this corruption a cancer. You also said that you had files, so why don't you open those files? I had written to you earlier and I demand again that a time-bound investigation be conducted into all leaders of all the parties, including me, under the supervision of the Chief Justice of the high court so that the truth comes out and it becomes known where the money from various corrupt practices went," Jakhar said in a post in Punjabi on X.
In his June 16 letter, the BJP leader had demanded that the probe to track down the "mighty and powerful end beneficiaries in the drug-money trail be conducted under the supervision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice".
Stating that it is imperative to "follow the money" in the drug-money trail, without which the exercise to root out drugs from Punjab is not only futile but a farce as well, Jakhar wrote to the chief minister, "This is important if your government wants to establish its credibility and resolve in its fight against drugs. It will be appropriate if you, as the CM, write to the high court chief justice, seeking his intervention to set up a time-bound probe by a credible agency, or even a multi-agency probe, under his supervision to uncover the end beneficiaries in the drug-money trail."
Demanding that the flow of money be established to catch the big fish and arrest the end beneficiaries, be it politicians across party lines or officials, Jakhar noted that drug cartels in Punjab cannot thrive without patronage. "The recovery of narcotics in Punjab goes into several thousands of crores of rupees, which underlies the rot that exists. It reeks of money laundering," he said, suggesting that ministers, MLAs, party presidents, parties in-charge and leaders of all hues should be part of the investigation.
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