Bikram Majithia faces big challenge of proving allegations wrong

Tribune News Service 

Chandigarh, December 21 

Booked for alleged involvement in the drug racket, former minister and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia faces the challenge of proving wrong the findings of the Special Task Force (STF) under Harpreet Singh Sidhu that implicate him directly for his role in the supply chain. 

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Brother of former Union Cabinet Minister Harsimrat Badal and brother-in-law of former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, Majithia forayed into the Punjab politics with his first election victory in 2007. He was subsequently also elected in 2012 and 2017. 

Bikram Majithia has always stayed in the coterie of the top managers of the SAD affairs during the recent past. He held the portfolio of the Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Information & Public Relations and Non Conventional Energy Minister during the previous SAD-BJP government in the state. 

Although Majithia has vehemently denied all charges, his name features in the STF report for having played the role of the ‘facilitator in supply of drug pseudoephedrine to two Canadian NRIs Satpreet Singh alias Satta and Parminder Singh alias Pindi in the infamous 2013 Jagdish Bhola drug scandal’. 

It is also worth mentioning that the Enforcement Directorate had also called Majithia for his alleged role in an international synthetic drug case in December 2014.