‘Govt giving fake property letters'
Ludhiana: SAD candidate for West bypoll, advocate Parupkar Singh Ghumman, Saturday launched a scathing attack on AAP-led Punjab govt and party candidate, Sanjeev Arora, over the distribution of "fake" provisional letters in "lal lakir" areas.
Challenging the govt to show one legal registry, he alleged the scheme was a lie backed by illegal paperwork and zero legal standing. He said the SC had, till date, not allowed any registration or ownership claims in "lal lakir" areas but the AAP govt was handing out papers with no legal value, misleading thousands of innocent families.
Ghumman claimed that during the 2022 state polls, former Congress MLAs also distributed cheques to households but when people reached banks, the cheques bounced and they were fined. "Sanjeev Arora has not delivered anything real as Rajya Sabha MP, and now he wants to mislead Ludhiana West as an MLA," he said, adding that people need permanent legal solutions, not political stunts. tnn
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