AAP, SAD, Cong leaders squabble over bail; BJP welcomes HC decision

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Political leaders exchanged barbs over the high court bail to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Wednesday.
Punjab former deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who was also the home minister when Majithia was booked in drugs case, accused the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of “not fighting the case properly even as Majithia accused the former Congress government of vendetta”. Randhawa alleged, “The AAP failed to contest the case. There is a motive. Do not forget how Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had apologised to Majithia after the 2017 assembly elections. The AAP government’s softness towards Majithia is coming from there. Also, if you dig deeper, you will know why senior lawyer Anmol Rattan Singh Sidhu had resigned as Advocate General (AG). Today’s bail for Majithia is an embarrassment for the AAP government even as it points towards a quid pro quo.”
He said Majithia was alleging vendetta, but “he should know that he had applied for bail at the highest level of judiciary. Still he did not get it. What does he have to say about those judges. Was that also vendetta”?
Majithia, after coming out of Patiala jail, mocked at former CM Charanjit Singh Channi and said that he was booked during Channi’s regime. Channi could not form the government again and is not even seen in politics anymore. Without naming former PPCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, Majithia said, “He was my neighbour and was banging his head against the walls (of the jails).”
He said such “tortures on him meted out by previous government were not uncommon. God bless all those who prayed for
me”. On Randhawa’s allegations, AAP chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang retorted, “I want to tell Randhawa sahib that bail to Majithia was honourable judge’s discretion. Majithia has spent six months in jail. He went to the Supreme Court, but he did not get it then. Now, he has got bail. Though the matter is sub judice as he has not been acquitted yet and is out only on bail, I would like to tell Randhawa that our law office is not working like him.
Bhagwan Mann government is very serious in handling drug-related cases.”
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