Chandigarh, Nov 14: Claiming that Punjab government had "failed" to find any "credible evidence" against sad chief Prakash Singh Badal, party general secretary Sukhbir Badal today said Chief Minister Amarinder Singh was "misusing" official machinery to get "false complaints" registered against the Akali leadership. "Amarinder Singh after failing to find credible evidence against the Akali leadership, especially the sad chief, was misusing the state administration and getting senior officials to give false complaints in return for plum postings and other favours. That alone explains the sudden flurry of belated complaints of corruption from senior police officials," he said in a statement here.

"If police officials indeed had any evidence of corruption against us, why did they keep mum for such a long time since the government changed," asked Sukhbir, MP, the son of Badal.

He claimed the Chief Minister had failed to come up with any evidence to prove his charges against the Badal family of having accumulated Rs 3500 crore worth of property.
Sukhbir said Amarinder was targeting political opponents to divert people's attention from "gross non-performance" of the Congress government and "infighting" in the party.

The chief minister had yesterday said that the challan against Badal and his close relatives in the disproportionate assets case was delayed as it was being fine-tuned in order to make it foolproof.

Bureau Report