‘Targeted for being Dalit,’ ex-Punjab CM Channi slams AAP govt over Vigilance Bureau summon

Charanjit Singh Channi, the earlier chief minister of Punjab, appeared sooner than the Vigilance Bureau on Friday in relation to a case involving disproportionate property. He criticised the state’s Aam Aadmi Party authorities for transferring up his date of look and claimed that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s administration was partaking in ‘vendetta politics’ sooner than visiting the bureau’s Mohali office at 11.10 a.m.

He was initially summoned by the vigilance office to search for questioning on April 12. He did, however, search a particular time to hitch the probe, and the bureau granted his request, asking him to point up on April 20. But the date was later moved ahead to April 14 by the corporate.

He had earlier demanded that CM Bhagwant Mann current proof that he owned precise property worth Rs 170 crore and had 250 acres of land.

He turned emotional whereas being accompanied by senior leaders on the Punjab Congress Bhavan in Chandigarh and declared that the AAP authorities was anti-Dalit on account of he had been referred to as for questioning on the supply anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar and on the auspicious occasion of Baisakhi.

He was joined by Congress Legislative Party (CLP) chief Partap Singh Bajwa, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Chaudhary and Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary, the social gathering’s candidate for the Jalandhar by-elections.

The former CM remarked that he believed he may even get thrown in jail as a result of the AAP authorities wished to forestall him from campaigning in Jalandhar.

Polling for the Jalandhar parliamentary seat will occur along with Karnataka assembly elections which might be on May 10 and the tip consequence shall be declared on 13 May.

“The AAP government may even eliminate me, but I won’t be cowed down. I will continue to speak the truth. The AAP falsely painted me as corrupt to win the 2022 Assembly election. I dare the CM to hold a press conference to give details of my property,” he challenged with tears in his eyes.

“Am I being harassed by the Centre through income tax and ED and by the state through vigilance only because I remained the CM for three months,” he requested the incumbent Punjab administration.

The Congressman asserted that the truth was that his financial state of affairs was precarious and {{that a}} determine had ordered the attachment of his ancestral home. “I had to get a stay from the court,” he added.