Chandigarh: A day after members in Punjab
Assembly favoured withdrawal of cases registered against top
leaders due to "political vendetta", former Chief Minister
Amarinder Singh on Friday said he did not require any "charity"
and would prove his innocence in courts.
"I have full faith in the judiciary and will prove my
innocence in the courts. I do not require charity from this
government", he said in a statement here.
He said that his stand in court has always been that
these cases have no truth in them and that they are there
purely out of political vendetta.
"My stand has now been vindicated," he said.
"If the government is sincere in this move, let it
withdraw all police cases against our Congress workers which
run to over 14,000. I do not wish to be part of any such
compromise," he said.
Singh asked the government to explain why it had wasted
the time of the courts over the past three years, and spent
the tax payers money on the enormous cost incurred on these
cases just to satisfy its ego by indulging in political
vendetta and that too towards the end of their tenure, when
Punjab can ill afford to waste money.
Opposition as well as ruling party members in the state
assembly had yesterday demanded withdrawal of cases registered
against top leaders in the state out of "political vendetta"
and asked the Speaker Niramal Singh Kahlon to take legal
opinion in the matter.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Sukhjinder Singh
Randhawa described the proposed move as "deputy Chief Minister
Sukhbir Badal's attempt to save himself, his family and the
corrupt coterie of ministers from the corruption cases pending
in different courts.
PTI
First Published: Friday, March 19, 2010, 20:38