Jalandhar, June 19, 2018: Congress legislator from Jalandhar West Sushil Kumar Rinku today demanded registration of an FIR for sedition against Aam Aadmi Party leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira and his immediate arrest for supporting ‘referendum 2020’ that aims not only to divide country but threatens the social fabric of Punjab.
In a statement issued here today, Rinku also questioned the silence of the AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, saying, it appears that he, like Khaira, was also supporting the divisive and subversive referendum. Otherwise, by now Khaira should not only have been removed as the Leader of the Opposition but also thrown out of the party.
The Congress legislator said, it was not for the first time that Khaira had fiddled with secessionism and it was his late father Sukhjinder Singh, who was first to raise the Khalistan banner. “Naturally Khalistan is in Khaira’s DNA and it was not unexpected of him to speak out his mind at some stage”, he remarked, added with such DNA, he started from Akali Dal, remained with the Congress for sometime and eventually joined the AAP apparently for the same reason that that party also fiddled with radicalism and secessionism
Rinku alleged that Khaira was not only politically involving himself with the enemies of the country, but financially also.
He alleged that Khaira was involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. He said, this has been corroborated with the seizure of a Pakistani mobile SIM card along with drugs from his close associates, whom he tried to defend and for which he was summoned by a Fazilka court. Rinku said, just because the Supreme Court has merely stayed proceedings against him does not mean he stands exonerated of the charges, from which he can never come clean.
The Congress legislator demanded that the Enforcement Directorate must find out the money trail and it will eventually lead to anti-national elements and the drug smugglers, both of whom he was trying to defend.
Rinku urged both the ED as well as the income tax department to find out the sources of Khaira’s phenomenal rise in assets between 2002 to 2017.
“The money trail for sure will lead to suspicious sources like the enemies of the country and the drug mafia”, he said, while referring to increase of Khaira’s assets by tens of crores of rupees without actually doing any business. He said, while Khaira’s total assets in 2007 were Rs 2 crores, these had crossed Rs 50 crores in 2012 while Khaira did no job other than being an MLA.