Punjab News: 'Arrest WPD Members Who Planned Political Executions,' Says SAD Leader Bikram Singh Majithia

Chandigarh: Senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday demanded arrest of members of the WhatsApp group linked with the Akali Dal Waris Punjab De (WPD) party and MP Amritpal Singh who, he alleged, planned the execution of some high-profile politicians including the union home minister Amit Shah.

Briefing newspersons in the context here, the SAD leader Majithia, who released some audio clips in which he alleged Amritpal spoke about his relation with gangsters, also demanded a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the entire matter. He held that he would forward all the evidence in his possession to the Centre as the Punjab police had become politicised.

He also questioned why chief minister Bhagwant Mann was silent on such a crucial matter. “Are the Punjab police, which have all the evidence in its possession, and the chief minister waiting for some person to die’? He asked.

Majithia further alleged that Amritpal was a ‘dhongi’ (impersonator) and not a ‘pracharak’ (preacher), and added that Amritpal and his family had always supported the Congress party and even voted against Panthic candidate Paramjit Kaur Khalra in 2019. He also alleged that gangsters Arsh Dalla, Happy Passia and Harwinder Rinda besides others were closely associated with Amritpal and that the latter was using a phone in the Dibrugarh jail.

The SAD leader also released details of the WhatsApp conversations in the Akali Dal (WPD) Team Moga page in which team members asserted that they were ready to become martyrs besides asking if their families would be look after in case they indulged in political assassinations of leaders including Ravneet Bittu, Bikram Singh Majithia and Amit Shah. He also released an audio clip of group in which a woman can be instigating members to become suicide bombers.

Pertinently, the Punjab government is said to have recently decided to extend the detention of Amritpal currently in Dibrugarh Jail, Assam under the National Security Act (NSA), for another year. The detention of his aides, who were also jailed under NSA, was not extended and they have recently been brought back to Punjab where they would face trial for other charges.

Amritpal and his aides were booked on charges of spreading disharmony among classes, attempt to murder, attack on police personnel and disrupting public servants from carrying out their duty in 2023.

According to sources, Amritpal’s detention under NSA has been extended by another year as police claims to have some evidence that he still continued to be a threat to the law and order of the state.

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