JALANDHAR: Akali Dal (Mann) President Simranjit Singh Mann has claimed that the station house officers (SHOs in rural police stations are organizing rallies and the block development officers (BDOs) are collecting people to attend Congress election rallies and meetings.
Addressing a press conference here on May 2, Mann and his party’s candidate Ajit Singh Bains charged Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh and his ministerial colleagues with giving cash grants to the panchayats falling in Jalandhar parliamentary constituency.
The government should disclose how it found the funds to give grants to the panchayats when over 25,000 special police officers in the state had not been paid salaries for the last three months, they questioned.
Bains said that the Jalandhar by election was a contest between human rights and state terrorism.
Mann pointed out that Beant
Singh had failed to arrange a visit of the Prime Minister to Punjab and was now talking of a ministerial berth for the party candidate Umrao Singh; He demanded that Umrao Singh should resign from the state cabinet before going to the people to seek their support. Transfer demanded
LUDHIANA: The Akali Dal (Mann) has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to immediately transfer the chief electoral officer for the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency.
The party general secretary Jagmohan Singh said on Monday that events over the weekend indicated that the Jalandhar poll would witness large scale rigging.
In this context, he cited the arrest of the chief spokesman of Damdami Taksal, Mohkam Singh, who had assured all help to party president Simaranjit Singh Mann during the election.
Jagmohan Singh demanded the immediate release of the Taksal spokesman.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 7, 1993
