Chandigarh: Former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday was quizzed for seven hours by the officers of Vigilance Bureau in reference to a disproportionate property matter. However, Channi termed the probe as “totally political”. Coming out from the Vigilance Bureau’s Mohali workplace, the previous Chief Minister slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and stated that Bhagwant Mann authorities’s remedy is worse than even the Mughals. He additional stated the Punjab authorities desires to make use of each solution to humiliate and defame.
“In democracy, this is not the way. that without any basis they try to build up a case. I stand by what I said earlier in the morning at my press conference, they may do whatever they have to,” Channi stated. “I always worked with honesty and will continue to do so,” he added.
Bhagwant Mann’s regime was indulging in “vendetta politics”
Ahead of getting into the bureau’s Mohali workplace round 11 am, the Congress chief had focused the state authorities over his date of look being superior and claimed that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s regime was indulging in “vendetta politics”. The bureau had initially requested Channi to seem for questioning on April 12. He, nonetheless, requested for one other date to hitch the investigation, which the bureau allowed, asking him to seem on April 20. Later, the Vigilance Bureau superior it to Friday.
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The bureau has been inquiring into allegations of Channi amassing property disproportionate to his identified supply of earnings. Last month, the bureau had issued a lookout round towards the previous chief minister. Asked about being questioned in the matter earlier than he entered the bureau’s workplace, Channi rubbished that he had gathered any disproportionate property and stated, “The probe is totally political. Let them do what they want.”
Addressing a press convention earlier than he reached the bureau’s workplace, Channi launched a scathing assault on the state’s AAP authorities and stated he “may be tortured, arrested or even killed”, however he’s ready to face it. “Hang me if even one person says Channi was indulging in any corrupt practice,” the previous CM stated breaking down in tears.
Channi stated forward of the Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll, he has raised some points. He alleged that the AAP authorities has been rattled by the questions he raised together with these referring to Dalits, “on what the chief minister said about Akal Takht Jathedar”, about justice in sacrilege circumstances and farmers’ points. “And when someone speaks the truth, the one who is a liar feels the pinch — that is what has happened with the AAP government,” he alleged.
(With PTI inputs)
