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Chandigarh: Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Saturday attacked former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s friendship with Pakistani journalist Arusa Alam and alleged that even a single posting of any officer in the state was done without “money or gift”. not done.
Sidhu’s principal strategic advisor Mohammad Mustafa also took a dig at Singh, prompting the former chief minister to hit back at him.
The allegation by Sidhu’s wife comes a day after Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said an inquiry would be conducted to find out whether the Pakistani journalist, who had been visiting Singh for several years Was it related to Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence or not. ISI).
Former MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu told reporters in Amritsar, “Not a single posting was made to Arusa Alam in Punjab without money or gifts.”
He alleged that even in the police department no posting took place without Alam’s consent and that the Pakistani journalist “run away” with all the money.
To a question on Alam’s picture with Congress President Sonia Gandhi being shared on Twitter by Singh’s media advisor Raveen Thukral on Friday, Navjot Kaur Sidhu said it was an old picture.
Later, Singh hit back at Mustafa after sharing a picture of Alam with former Punjab chief secretary and former director general of police.
“Still struggling to understand the ‘design’ behind CP-Arosa pic @capt_amarinder tweeting! Please understand, granting visas by UPA or NDA to ‘foreign guests’ involves ‘License 2 Domestic & Outsourced’ Governance Mechanism No,” Mustafa said in a tweet.
Reacting to this, Thukral also shared two pictures on his Twitter handle.
“And how are you explaining it @MohdMustafaips. Aren’t your wife and daughter-in-law with the same woman? How little can you get? Mixing politics with friendship! #AroosaAlam personally cherish these and many such memories with your family,” Thukral quoted Singh as saying.
In response, Mutsafa wrote: “My time is too precious to be able to connect with proxy @rt_media_capt. The depth and dimension of our relationship with CAS (Singh) is beyond all comprehension, miles above pure commerce. Even during bitter fights we draw a line, Raveen bhai, there will be no surrogate appointed which will never be understood.
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