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Jalandhar LS bypoll: SAD lodges complaint against AAP with EC
Addressing a press conference here, SAD’s legal wing president Arshdeep Singh Kler said, “It is shocking that the AAP minister converted a convention of the ETT Union into a party’s function in Jalandhar. The minister cannot preside over any such events and claim to have the support of government employee unions.”
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday complained to the Election Commission to take action against education minister Harjot Bains for claiming that all government employees would vote for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the forthcoming bypoll to the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency during a recent meeting a teachers’ union.
Addressing a press conference here, SAD’s legal wing president Arshdeep Singh Kler said, “It is shocking that the AAP minister converted a convention of the ETT Union into a party’s function in Jalandhar. The minister cannot preside over any such events and claim to have the support of government employee unions.”
Requesting the Election Commission to take action in the matter, Kler said: “AAP functionaries are violating the model code of conduct with impunity on a daily basis.”
He claimed a couple of days ago, panchayati raj officer GS Randhawa had convened a meeting of sarpanches in the Adampur BDO’s office and “threatened” them to ensure voting in the favour of the AAP candidate or face suspension and registration of criminal cases against them. He said this complaint was still pending with the Election Commission.
Kler alleged that the state government was also mounting pressure on chemists and sweets shop owners to vote for the AAP candidate or face raids.
