Illegal sand mining case: FIR during Congress rule, says Tarun Chugh

CHANDIGARH: BJP national general secretary

Tarun Chugh

on Friday rubbished allegations that Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew was arrested by ED on political grounds.

Chugh asserted that the case against

Channi

’s nephew Bhupendra Singh Honey was registered in 2018, when Channi was a cabinet minister in the Congress government. He said ED had only done follow-up action in investigation. He alleged that the recovery of money from Honey’s residence showed that the CM’s family had been patronising sand mafia.

He said mafias had been running the Congress government in Punjab and voters would now give a befitting reply.