JALANDHAR: Senior Congress leader and Technical Education Minister Rana Gurjeet Singh today urged the party President Sonia Gandhi to expel Sukhpal Singh Khaira from the party for his alleged involvement in ‘drug money’ laundering.
In a letter to Ms Gandhi, Rana said, “He (Khaira) is currently in jail in connection with the money laundering case. It is not the routine money laundering case of unaccounted wealth or money. It relates to drug money. The money in question has been made through drugs, which is unacceptable and indefensible”.
The minister said, the Congress party has always been against drugs. “In fact it was our worthy former President Rahul Gandhi Ji who had flagged the issue in 2015, while referring to the serious problem of drugs in Punjab”, he said in the letter while adding, “how can our party give ticket to someone who is tainted by drug charges or to any of his family members?”
“It will be difficult for the Congress leaders and contestants to defend the indefensible that on the one hand we have sworn that we will eliminate drugs and on the other hand we are giving a party ticket to a tainted person who is in jail accused of money laundering which he accumulated from drugs”, he said.