Dakha’s AAP leader Dr KNS Kang on Tuesday said the previous Congress government had released “grants of Rs 65 lakh” for installing street lights in 26 villages of Sidhwan Bet block of Dakha constituency ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections in January this year. embezzled”. ,
Kang said that despite the check being signed and issued, the lights were 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 misuse. Where was it 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 the lights have not been put on yet.