No word on Bikram Singh Majithia at SAD core panel meet

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 23

While SAD general secretary and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia is at the centre stage after being booked for alleged drugs smuggling, the party’s core-committee today did not discuss the case nor pass any resolution condemning it. The committee’s deliberations, decision and resolution establish the history of the party’s stand on any issue and its minutes are recorded. Today’s meeting was especially attended by party’s patriarch and five-time Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal after a long gap.

Statement Already issued

There was no need for the core committee to take up Majithia’s case, as party leaders have already issued statements regarding the false case registered against him. Daljeet Singh Cheema, Spokesperson, SAD

The details given to the media about the meeting did not mention any discussion on Majithia. The press release said the core committee demanded a sitting judge of the High Court to monitor the probe into the recent cases of sacrilege.

It said the party would hold a massive “Panthic Rosh Ikath” at Manji Sahib in the Sri Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar on January 2 to protest police inaction in sacrilege cases. Party sources said till yesterday, the majority viewpoint was to stage massive protests in Chandigarh and Punjab against the registration of a drugs smuggling case against Majithia. However, the core committee did not deliberate on it. The press release said party president Sukhbir Singh Badal presided over the meeting, which was attended by party patron Parkash Singh Badal.

Talking to mediapersons later, Sukhbir said the state government had failed to unravel the conspiracy behind such cases despite the fact that the SGPC handed over a person responsible for throwing the holy Gutka Sahib into the ‘sarovar’ at Sri Darbar Sahib on December 15 to the police.

“Had this case been investigated properly, the ghastly event of December 18 in the sanctum sanctorum of Harmandar Sahib would have been averted.”