Congress Starts Campaign To Support Punjab's Channi After Raids On Nephew
NDTV
The Congress campaign comes after the ED this week said it seized cash amounting to about Rs 8 crore from a relative of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
Under fire from its political rivals over the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids, the Congress in Punjab has launched a campaign on social media stating that the entire state is with Charanjit Singh Channi and blaming the BJP-led Centre for trying to defame Punjab's first chief minister from the scheduled caste community.
The ED on Wednesday had said it seized cash amounting to over Rs 10 crore, including about Rs 8 crore from a relative of Mr Channi, during raids conducted in connection with an anti-money laundering investigation against illegal sand mining operations in the poll-bound state.
It had also said, "incriminating" documents related to "illegal" sand mining and property transactions, mobile phones, gold worth more than Rs 21 lakh and a Rolex watch worth Rs 12 lakh were also seized during the searches that ended on Wednesday.
The Punjab Congress has come out with a social media campaign ‘PunjabChanniDeNaalHai' and has posted video clips of several persons coming out in support of Chief Minister Mr Channi on its Facebook page.
