‘I can also be killed’: Vigilance called even on Baisakhi holiday, ready for torture, says former CM Channi

Chandigarh News: Former Punjab CM Charanjit Channi accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of getting him killed. Channi has to be questioned by the vigilance in the disproportionate assets case. Speaking at the Punjab Kala Bhawan in Chandigarh, Charanjit Channi said the vigilance had earlier called him on April 12 to join the investigation.

    “I told them I can’t come because I am busy. Vigilance again called me on April 20. When the truth was told in the press conference, the government was shocked and called me today.”
     The Punjab government has opened a vigilance office for me despite it being a Baisakhi holiday to harass me. I am ready to bear the atrocities of CM Bhagwant Mann’s government, Channi said.
He said, “I can be murdered, but I will go to the vigilance office alone. The Punjab government can arrest me. They can put me in jail today. But I am getting strength from my guru and the elder Sahibzadas of Chamkaur Sahib to bear the atrocities of the government.”
     Charanjit Channi was in Jalandhar yesterday. Here he filed the nomination of Lok Sabha by-election candidate Kamaljit Kaur. After this, Channi lashed out at Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. Channi had termed the AAP government as anti-Dalit and anti-Sikh. Two hours later, the government’s reaction came. The reaction came through vigilance that he should appear in the investigation not on April 20 but today, Congress leadership said.