New Delhi : The Congress
Tuesday came out in support of rebel AAP MLA and Punjab Ekta party chief
Sukhpal Singh Khaira, condemning the Enforcement Directorate raids against him
as "political vendetta".
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep
Surjewala said the party deprecates the "brutal raid raj" as he also
slammed central probe agencies.
"The ED and the CBI should open their
offices now in BJP headquarters as political vendetta is their sole agenda. We
deprecate this brutal raid raj and harassment of opposition leaders as
witnessed by the revengeful raids on Punjab MLA Sukhpal Khaira," Surjewala
said on Twitter.
The ED raided the premises of Khaira,
his family members in Delhi and some jailed convicts on Tuesday in a
money-laundering case linked to the 2015 Fazilka narcotics trafficking case and
a fake passport racket.
The MLA, who heads the Punjab
Ekta Party founded by him in 2019, denied any wrongdoing as he briefly spoke to
reporters outside his bungalow in Chandigarh's sector 5.
He said he had
"not done anything wrong" and such raids happen against anyone
raising their voice against the government.
The central agency
searched a dozen locations -- Khaira's residence, nine places in Punjab and two
in Delhi -- including the house of his son-in-law, Inderveer Singh Johal.
The agency alleged that
Khaira (56), the MLA from Bholath in Kapurthala district, is an
"associate" of the drugs racket convicts and fake passport racketeers.
Khaira was elected to the
state Assembly in 2017 on an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket, but he later quit
the party and launched his own political outfit. PTI
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