Dakha AAP leader Dr KNS Kang said on Tuesday that the previous Congress government had released a grant of Rs 65 lakh for installation of street lights in 26 villages of Sidhwan Bet block of Dakha constituency ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections in January this year. embezzlement”. ,
Kang said that despite the check being signed and issued, the light was never put on. He said that not only were the lights procured at inflated rates, but they were also brought from a firm owned by a relative of Congress leader Captain Sandeep Sandhu, who had contested from Dakha.
Kang alleged that the embezzled money was probably used to campaign for the Congress in Punjab elections.
Presenting a set of documents at a press conference on Tuesday, Kang said he has submitted a complaint in the matter to the Deputy Commissioner of Ludhiana, requesting a high-level inquiry into where the money for street lights went and their was misused. Where was this done?
Kang said the BDPOs who had signed those checks themselves have now written to the chairman of the panchayat samiti that they have signed those checks under “political pressure” but have yet to be illuminated.