Following the arrest of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in a drugs case, Aam Aadmi Party president Arvind Kejriwal stated that his party is totally committed to the INDIA coalition, but that anyone involved with drugs will not be spared.
Addressing a news conference, Kejriwal said “We are fully committed to the India alliance. We will not separate from the alliance under any circumstances. I have come to know that the Punjab Police arrested some Congress leader yesterday. I do not have its details; Punjab Police will tell it. But we have waged a war against drugs. I would not like to comment on any individual case or person, but we are committed to end drug addiction. In this war against drugs, no matter how big or small a person is, he will not be spared.”
Khaira was arrested this morning at his Chandigarh residence in connection with an old case filed in 2015 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The Punjab Congress has been harshly critical of the Bhagwant Mann government over Khaira’s arrest, claiming political revenge on the part of the state government.
“I want to condemn Bhawant Mann’s action. Mann thinks he will be in the government forever but he is wrong everyone has to go and his government will also go,” he said while speaking to reporters outside Sardar police station” said Punjab Congress senior leader Partap Singh Bajwa.
“As I am the Leader of the Opposition it is our constitutional right to meet Khaira. We were supposed to meet him in the custody of the police officials but they didn’t allow us. It was a courtesy call and wanted to tell him that the Congress party and each and every leader of the party is with him, nothing more than this” said Bajwa.