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As ED arrests Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora, ‘vendetta politics’ comes full circle for AAP

The Indian Express·Divya Goyal·23 days ago
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From the arrest of former Punjab minister and senior Congress leader Bharat Bhushan Ashu by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau in 2022 to the arrest of senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora on Saturday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), allegations of “political vendetta” have come full circle in Ludhiana West. Nearly four years ago, months after the AAP swept to power in Punjab with a brute majority, the state Vigilance Bureau arrested Ashu in the alleged Rs 2,000-crore foodgrain transportation scam. The Congress had then accused the ruling AAP of carrying out a “political witch-hunt” and misusing the Vigilance Bureau. Ashu, a two-time MLA from Ludhiana West, had lost the 2022 Assembly election to AAP’s Gurpreet Gogi. Following his arrest, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann defended the action, saying the government would “spare no one who has looted Punjab”. “We are not doing political vendetta. Those who have looted Punjab won’t be spared.…

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