TAKHT FUMES OVER TERRORIST TAG ON SIKH MAYORAL NOMINEE IN US

AMRITSAR:FUMING over the slanderous leaflets left on car windshields of a Sikh candidate for the mayoral polls in Hoboken town of New Jersey, United States, the Akal Takht on Monday condemned the act of labelling the candidate as terrorist.

The leaflets linking candidate Ravinder Bhalla with terrorism appeared on Friday night, a few days before the polls scheduled for Tuesday (November 7).

Talking to the media here, Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh said, “A Sikh can never be a terrorist. Normally, we see that the Sikhs who raise voice for the truth or fight for their rights are labelled as terrorists. This is an unfair practice” CHANDIGARH : It is not just Congressmen who have filed petitions against Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders alleging political vendetta and misuse of the NDPS Act before a commission set up by chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to probe false cases registered during the 10-year tenure of the previous SAD-BJP government. The panel, headed by Justice Mehtab Singh Gill (retd), has also received several complaints from Akalis against their own leaders.

According to documents accessed by HT, former Ajnala MLA Amarpal Singh ‘Bonny’ Ajnala has submitted an affidavit dated June 13, 2017, attested by a notary, to the commission accusing former revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia of

“falsely implicating” his friend Maninder Singh alias Bittu Aulakh in the Jagdish Bhola drug case. Bhola, a suspended Punjab cop, is a former wrestler who was charged by Punjab Police as ‘kingpin’ of the multicrore drug scandal.

“My friend Bittu Aulakh has

no links with any drug smuggler and he has been falsely implicated to tarnish the image of our family and this was made the reason for denial of ticket to contest Lok Sabha elections in 2014 to my father (Rattan Singh Ajnala, former Khadoor Sahib MP and three-time MLA),” reads