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From corridors of power: ED near CM Mann’s gate, Amarinder’s stick-free return, and AAP’s ‘unequal’ Aroras

The Indian Express·Kanchan Vasdev·23 days ago
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Former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh (File photo). In Chandigarh’s power-packed Sector 2, the Enforcement Directorate appears to have narrowed its search radius to the Chief Minister’s neighbourhood. On one side of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann lives his Cabinet colleague Sanjeev Arora in House No. 43, which was raided by the ED. On the other side, in House No. 46, resides Cabinet Minister Aman Arora, who is named as an associate of accused Gaurav Dhir in a money-laundering case. The agencies, it seems, have mastered Chandigarh mapping. The Chief Minister may not be in the line of fire, but the sparks are landing uncomfortably close to his gate. Sector 2 is no longer just Chandigarh’s poshest sector and the VIP address of Punjab’s ruling class. It is becoming an investigative landmark. One neighbour gets raided, another gets named, and the Chief Minister sits in the middle like the untouched house in a row of falling dominoes.…

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