Chandigarh, August 20, 2017: Irrigation and Power Minister Rana Gurjeet Singh today lashed out at the Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Sukhpal Singh Khaira for opposing the clean chit given to the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh by the Vigilance Bureau.
Rana, in a statement issued here today, reminded Khaira of his dozens of statements between 2007 and 2015 where he always defended Capt Amarinder and said the Ludhiana City Centre case was registered by the Badals against Capt Amarinder out of sheer vendetta. “Facts do not change with the changeover of fences”, he remarked, while saying that Khaira had crossed all the limits of doublespeak and double standards.
“How come that when you were with the Congress the case against Capt Amarinder was political vendetta, which should naturally have been dismissed and deservingly fell flat, and when you are no longer with the Congress you have found the case to be too genuine to have failed in the courts”, Rana asked Khaira, while advising him not to kill his conscience for sheer political opportunism.
The Power Minister pointed out, how Khaira used to defend Capt Amarinder against the political vendetta by the Badals, day in and day out. “Every day you used to issue statements in support of Capt Amarinder by referring to the political vendetta and now just because you have switched over to the AAP you have found the case to be genuine and sought the intervention of the Honourable High Court”, he reminded the AAP leader.