Confiscate passports of Badals, Sumedh Saini immediately: Mann

Parvesh Sharma
Tribune News Service
Sangrur, February 22

AAP’s Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann on Friday demanded that the passports of former CM Parkash Singh Badal, former deputy CM Sukhbir Badal and former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini be confiscated.

“The Punjab government must confiscate the passports of Badal, Sukhbir and Saini as our sources say they may try to flee the country apprehending arrest in sacrilege cases,” Mann said here.

About Badal’s offer of being ready to be arrested, Mann said Badal was still trying to get sympathy by such offers, but gone are the days when people used to fell into the trap of the Badals.

“By offering himself for arrest, Badal has confirmed that he apprehends his arrest as he has lost all hope. But now Punjab residents would not fall into the trap. In the coming days he will be arrested for his sins and not for political reasons,” Mann said.

He said he never doubted the credibility of officers of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the sacrilege incidents, but had apprehensions that CM Capt Amarinder Singh would try to help the Badals.

“Everybody knows that our CM has been trying to save the Badals as they had withdrawn all cases against Amarinder during the last days of the SAD-BJP tenure. But in case the CM tries to save the Badals, Congress leaders would face more serious problems than SAD leaders in the coming days,” said Mann.

He claimed that SAD leaders had sought pardon from the Akal Takht, but without disclosing their mistakes.

“People know for what mistakes they had gone to the Akal Takht. Time has come for the Badals and other SAD leaders to pay for their mistakes,” Mann added.