Ready to contest against Navjot Sidhu: Bikram Majithia

Chandigarh, January 11

A day after getting an interim anticipatory bail in a drug smuggling case, former minister and senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia said he was open to contesting the Assembly election against PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu or any Congress leader if the people of Punjab and his party leadership asked him to.

CM ‘hatched’ security threat conspiracy

The PM’s security threat conspiracy was hatched at the CM's residence with the CM and Home Minister being prime conspirators. — Bikram Singh Majithia, Senior Akali Leader

Addressing a press conference here today, Majithia said it was wrong to say he feared arrest and had run away. “I was not in hiding and the Congress leaders who got the false case registered against me knew about my whereabouts all these days,” he claimed.

Majithia claimed senior ministers of the Congress government as well as leaders of the BJP and AAP had reached out to him and even visited his residence saying he had been wronged. “I express my gratitude to them,” he said.

Thanking the judiciary, his party and supporters for the relief from the High Court, Majithia said he would join the probe on Wednesday and clear his name.

Asked if his party would punish Congress leaders for a “false” case against him if the Akalis returned to power, Majithia said only time would tell who suffered or not. “I was targeted as part of a vendetta exercise by the Congress government and its top leadership,” he claimed.

He alleged the CM and Home Minister Sukhjinder Randhawa held meetings on a daily basis to frame him in a false case. “The government even ran away from the PIL being heard on the issue of drug menace in the region to file a false case against me which was done on the orders of DGP S Chattopadhyaya who was brought in especially for this purpose,” claimed Majithia. The same DGP gave the clearance to “compromise” the safety of PM Narendra Modi during his Punjab visit, he alleged.