Ahead of debate on panel report, Punjab Assembly witnesses unruly scenes

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Ahead of the debate on the Justice Ranjit Singh commission report, the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday again witnessed uproarious scenes after Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh sought a house committee to probe the allegations by SAD president Sukhbir Badal.

Sukhbir had alleged that mobile calls were exchanged between Congress ministers, AAP leader Sukhpal Khaira and controversial Sikh preacher Baljit Daduwal.

SAD MLAs stormed the Well of the House after the CM alleged that the SAD was misleading the House.

Addressing a press conference outside the Assembly, Sukhpal Khaira accused Sukhbir Badal of concocting the call detail records of politicians to get the attention off the report.

Khaira claimed that because of the fabricated things that Badal had said and called his political opponents ISI agents, they would meet the same fate as Manjit Singh GK in the US two days back.

Meanwhile, AAP MLA Kultar Singh Sandhawan accused the Akalis of throwing down the Ranjit Singh Commission report, and sought a resolution condemning the Akalis for “desecrating the report”, which had Guru Granth Sahib written in it. The House unanimously passed the resolution.

There was also ruckus over Sukhbir’s allegations that an AAP MLA, Justice Ranjit Singh, registrar of the Commission and two ministers had met at a farm house and scripted the report.

Badal had levelled these allegations on Monday. The CM read out his statement, denying it and saying it was misleading. The CM said the towers mentioned in Badal’s statement did not exist.