The Disciplinary Action Committee of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Saturday suspended party MLA Sandeep Jakhar with immediate effect for allegedly indulging in ani-party activities. He is the nephew of Punjab BJP Chief Sunil Jakhar, who had last year left the Congress.
The action against Jakhar came following a complaint filed by Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. Punjab Congress posted a communication on X and said, "Sandeep Jakhar is suspended from the party with immediate effect."
You are openly defending your uncle Sunil Jakhar
The suspension order signed by Disciplinary Action Committee member secretary Tariq Anwar read, “The President, Punjab PCC has complained that you are indulging in anti-party activities in the following manner.”
"You have not been participating in any of the party programmes including Bharat Jodo Yatra. The house in which you stay is a common accommodation on which a BJP flag flies atop. You have been speaking against the party and the PCC president and also you are openly defending your uncle Sunil Jakhar. After careful consideration, the DAC (Disciplinary Action Committee) has decided to place you under suspension from the party with immediate effect," wrote Anwar, a DAC member.
'My stand was clear from the very first day'
Reacting to his suspension, Jakhar said that the party did whatever they found right. "The party did whatever they found right. My focus is on my work and I'm doing it. My stand was clear from the very first day...Whatever work was done in the past one year was done in front of everybody. Nothing was done behind closed doors, unlike other leaders."
Jakhar, the first time MLA, and Warring had earlier engaged in a war of words. Warring had once dared Jakhar to resign from the Congress and get a fresh mandate "if he was so confident about their support in Abohar." Sandeep Jakhar had then challenged Warring to throw him out of the outfit by issuing him a notice.
(With agencies input)
