"INDIA alliance stands like a tall mountain": Navjot Sidhu amid Congress-AAP tension in Punjab
Congress over alliance with AAP to contest the 2024 general election together, Punjab Congress leader Navjot Sidhu on Sunday said that the "INDIA alliance stands like a tall mountain."
The Punjab Congress leader also added that Punjab must understand that this is an election to choose India's Prime Minister and not Punjab's Chief Minister.
«The I.N.D.I.A alliance stands like a tall mountain, a storm here and there will not affect its Grandeur!!! Any attempt to sabotage and breach this shield to safeguard our Democracy will prove futile. Punjab must understand that this is an election to choose India's Prime Minister and not Punjab's Chief Minister!!! #JudegaBharatJeetegaIndia,» posted Sidhu on X.
This comes after Punjab Congress leaders expressed strong resentment and termed the arrest of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in connection with a 2015 drugs case as a 'political vendetta'.
A Punjab court on Saturday sent Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira to 14-day judicial custody in connection with a 2015 drugs case.
«The police demanded a 7-day remand.
After seeing the police's evidence, the judge turned down their request. The court sent him to judicial remand of 14 days,» the counsel said.
Congress MLA Khaira was arrested from his Chandigarh residence on Thursday morning in connection with an old case registered in 2015 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The Aam Aadmi Party and Congress-- members of the opposition's INDIA bloc-- have been at loggerheads in the border state over the arrest of Khaira.
While the Congress is calling it vindictive politics of AAP, the ruling party is terming the development as part of their «zero-tolerance policy» against drugs.
Earlier in 2015, there
