New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal announced on Saturday that he will not quit in connection with a Rs 78-crore disproportionate assets case.
However, the statement did not go well with his predecessor Amrinder Singh, who said he will seek transfer of the trial to a court outside the state.
"I will soon move a petition in the Supreme Court requesting that the trial of the case against Badal and his family members be shifted to a court outside Punjab as a fair trial is not possible under the present dispensation," PTI quoted Singh as saying.
A court in Ropar had framed charges against him, his wife Surinder Kaur, MP son Sukhbir Singh Badal and seven others in a corruption case on Friday. Initially, the Vigilance department had claimed a Rs 3,500 crore scam by the Badals, but this figure was later brought down to Rs 78 crore.
While demanding Badal's resignation on moral grounds, Singh added that the people of Punjab "will throw him out in due course of time".
The Congress alleges that son of the SAD chief and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal is controlling the situation and thus is planning to call for a "re-investigation" in the case.
The party says that the case should be investigated to the CBI and not by the Vigilance Bureau.
The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) termed the charges in the disproportionate assets case, lodged during former Congress rule, as being politically motivated.
"Badal has filed cases against Amrinder Singh, the former Chief Minister of Punjab. There are two criminal cases as well as two civil suits. Therefore, this was a result of total malafide prosecution," says Defence Counsel, Vikram Chowdhary.
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