Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday courted arrest along with core committee members of the party to register their protest against what the party called Congress "conspiracy" to implicate senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a false drugs case.
Despite heavy security outside the MLA flats complex, senior leaders of the party overcame barricading to march to the chief minister’s residence and courted arrest in front of it. Speaking on the occasion, the SAD President alleged that Pradesh Congress President Navjot Sidhu was resorting to extra constitutional measures by directing the State government to register a false case against Bikram Majithia. “The CM and the home minister have not only agreed to this demand in order to divert attention from the failures of the Congress government but have also directed the DGP to register the false case,” he said.
