LUDHIANA – Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president and former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today termed the SAD-BJP government as the “most corrupt” in the state’s history.
Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of an interactive session organised by the National Students Union of India, he said: “Post-Independence, the Punjab residents have not seen corruption of the scale that the senior government functionaries, including the Badal family, have been indulging in.”
Amarinder chided Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal for justifying his financial stakes in an electronic (read PTC) channel. He said what Sukhbir had purportedly confessed was not even the proverbial tip of the iceberg. “What the Deputy Chief Minister has chosen to hide are his vast stakes in the sand mining, transport and liquor businesses,” he said.
In reply to a query whether or not the Badals would be put behind bars for their acts of “omission and commission” if the Congress was voted to power, Amarinder said each and every act of the government would be inves
