Act against guilty Intelligence top brass to ensure free and free fair poll in Punjab :SAD to EC

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Chandigarh : The Shiromani Akali Dal today demanded immediate transfer of all state Intelligence officials including the top bras who face charges of compromising the peace and security of the border state of Punjab and indulging in linked in gross and brazen electoral malpractices to provide “illegal, illegitimate and immoral” to help the ruling Congress party.

“ sensitive intelligence inputs were shared with a private company seriously jeopardising security considerations just to subvert the entire electoral process in Punjab.

Addressing a press conference here today, Harcharan Singh Bains Principal Advisor to Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal, said that the party had filed a complaint with Election Commission of India detailing how Intelligence Wing was used by the Congress party by placing it at the disposal of it a private Agency to illegally acquire inputs about prospective candidates of opposition parties and ways to threaten them to withdraw from elections.

He said that SAD had given detailed account of working of Intelligence wing officials with Private Agency namely ‘MovDekPOLITICO’ in securing inputs. He said that party has urged ECI that the continued presence of these officers on active duty would make a free and fair poll impossible.