FAGEHGARH SAHIB: Youth Akali Dal President and Core Committee member of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Sarabjeet Singh Jhinjer, today launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party after he was illegally detained for over 9 hours by the Punjab Police.
In a statement released here, Jhinjer said, "Today, the Aam Aadmi Party’s fear of the Shiromani Akali Dal and its workers has become evidently clear. Bhagwant Mann, who once claimed there were no workers left in Akali Dal, is now so scared of those very workers that he sends a massive police force in the early hours and illegally detains them to silence their voice."
Explaining further, he said, "Today, 8–10 police officers came to my house at 4 AM, took away my and my family’s phones without giving any reason, and detained us. When we repeatedly asked, they said it was a 'security check'. What kind of security check is conducted at 4 in the morning? And why was it necessary to confiscate our phones for this so-called check? Only after word got out through villagers and local Akali leaders started arriving at my residence did the police take me in their car, drove me around to different places just to waste time, and finally released me at 1 PM—conveniently after Bikram Singh Majithia Ji’s hearing was over."