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CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Punjab constabulary are believed to person filed 2 FIRs against Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak, who switched from AAP to BJP a week agone on with six others.While sources adjacent to govt confirmed the FIRs, nary 1 was consenting to speech astir it.
No authoritative connection connected the quality of the allegations had been issued by the constabulary till Saturday nighttime but sources said Pathak faced non-bailable charges.Repeated attempts to interaction DGP Gaurav Yadav and AAP authorities spokesperson Baltej Pannu went unanswered. The idiosyncratic who answered Pathak’s telephone said helium was not disposable and said helium didn’t cognize astir immoderate FIR. While governmental speculation swirled, video footage emerged purportedly showing Pathak leaving done a rear exit successful a achromatic SUV connected Saturday, immoderate clip earlier Punjab constabulary arrived astatine his Pandara Park residence successful Delhi.Pathak, a erstwhile IIT-Delhi professor, was 1 of the cardinal strategists for AAP during the 2022 assembly election. The timing of the FIRs triggered a governmental debate, with BJP and SAD alleging “political vendetta”. Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar said his enactment would not beryllium intimidated by FIRs filed by the AAP govt, and alleged these actions were meant to “divert attention” from CM Bhagwant Mann’s alleged behaviour successful the assembly.
Jakhar said those who were erstwhile considered loyal by AAP are being labelled negatively overnight aft they near the party. This is an effort to physique unit connected remaining members and forestall further defections, helium alleged.SAD subordinate Bikram Singh Majithia posted connected X, “Selective targeting of those who autumn retired with AAP. Sandeep Pathak was erstwhile a trusted adjutant of Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal, a cardinal powerfulness centre.
.. After shifting loyalties, FIRs nether non-bailable sections constituent to imaginable vendetta politics. From power to investigation, the displacement raises superior questions.”Security was tightened and further unit were deployed extracurricular Pathak’s location successful Delhi. In the afternoon, Delhi constabulary teams were seen placing barricades successful the vicinity arsenic portion of precautionary arrangements.BJP questioned AAP’s priorities successful what it alleged was a deteriorating instrumentality and bid concern successful Punjab. BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the authorities has been battling a cause menace and criminals had been targeting offices of adjacent constabulary officers.
