Raja Warring reversed party stand calling for a CBI probe into the death of Dr Gagandeep Randhawa following a single reprimand from the CM - Sukhbir S Badal.
Says all it took the CM was a statement that the case involving Warring and his brother-in-law who forced a Faridkot businessman to commit suicide was also not sent to the CBI
Addresses massive rally at Amloh, says Punjab needs party and CM who can bring back era of peace and development
Babushahi Network
Amloh, March 25, 2025 - Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring was so afraid of skeletons tumbling out of his closet that he had reversed the party’s stand calling for a CBI probe into the death of Warehousing officer Dr Gagandeep S Randhawa following a single reprimand from chief minister Bhagwant Mann.
The SAD president was addressing a massive rally here as part of the party’s Punjab Bachao campaign along with senior leader Gurpreet Singh Raju khanna.
Sukhbir Badal said it was astonishing that Raja Warring had started opposing the stand taken by all Congress MPs of Punjab calling for a CBI probe into the death of Dr Randhawa in writing to union home minister Amit Shah.
“All it took for the CM to make Raja Warring come to heel was a statement that the case involving the latter and his brother in law Dimpy Vinayak who forced a Faridkot businessman to commit suicide was also not sent to the CBI”.
Badal asserted that Bhagwant Mann had also constantly brandished a file containing details of an Rs 100 crore scam by Raja Warring involving fabrication of 814 buses from Rajasthan despite lower quotes from Punjab fabricators during his tenure as Transport minister in 2021- 22. He said the complete cave-in by Raja Warring on this sensitive issue had made it clear that the latter was not fit to be Punjab Congress president and would only bring ruin to the party.
Asserting that Punjab needed a party and a chief minister who could bring back the era of peace and development, the SAD president said “you have seen both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party. Stop experimenting any further. Repose faith in your regional party and its leadership to put Punjab back on the path of progress and prosperity”. He also listed how the SAD had in its earlier stints in power done the utmost for farmers, traders and the poor. “We gave farmers free power facility besides making Punjab power surplus. The SAD is also responsible for introducing old age pension and innovative social welfare schemes like Aata-Dal, Shagun and SC scholarship. All these schemes are in doldrums under AAP rule”, he added.
Badal also spoke on how the AAP government had betrayed farmers at every step be it reneging on procuring Moong pulse despite official announcements and not giving compensation for the crop damage in floods last year. “The AAP government has also failed to intervene and help farmers in case of forced distress sale of commodities like potatoes which is happening right now. I assure farmers that we will direct State agencies to step in and procure all food commodities in case of any distress sale”.
Speaking about his plan for the future of Punjab Badal announced he would not allow one drop of industrial or sewage effluent to enter the Sutlej and Beas rivers. “The violators will be dealt with sternly. This is absolutely essential to tackle the scourge of cancer in the Malwa belt”.
The SAD president also announced that motor cycles would be exempt from road tax once the SAD government was formed. He said an Rs 10 lakh interest free loan would be offered to youth besides restarting an expanded Aata Dal scheme and raising old age pension to Rs 3,100 per month and Shagun allowance to Rs 1 lakh. He also announced all farmers bereft of a tubewell connection would be given this facility besides free “takseem” of joint ownership of land and the reintroduction of the single point tax Rahat scheme to end the tax terrorism being inflicted on traders by the AAP government.