{"id":490059,"date":"2023-09-28T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T07:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=490059"},"modified":"2023-09-28T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T08:29:32","slug":"punjab-congress-sukhpal-singh-khaira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/breaking-newscast-punjab\/punjab-congress-sukhpal-singh-khaira\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira arrested by Punjab Police in old drugs smuggling case, Congress, SAD condemn arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira has been arrested by the Punjab Police in an old drugs smuggling case on September 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, a case was registered against the Congress leader in drugs smuggling case. Following that the officials from the Jalalabad police station raided Khaira\u2019s Sector 5 bungalow in Chandigarh today morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his arrest, Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Warring slammed the CM Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party government and called it a ploy by the state government to distract people from the main issues. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warring further said that National Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge asked him on call in the morning to fight for the Khaira and asked other party leaders to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to X, formerly Twitter Warring said the recent arrest of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira smacks of Political Vendetta, it is an attempt to intimidate the opposition and is a ploy of the Punjab government to distract from core issues. We stand strongly with Sukhpal Khaira and will take this fight to its logical conclusion, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The recent arrest of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCPunjab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@INCPunjab<\/a> MLA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SukhpalKhaira?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SukhpalKhaira<\/a> ji smacks of Political Vendetta, it is an attempt to intimidate the opposition and is a ploy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AAPPunjab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AAPPunjab<\/a> govt to distract from core issues. We stand strongly with Sukhpal Khaira  and will take this fight to its logical\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Amarinder Singh Raja Warring (@RajaBrar_INC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RajaBrar_INC\/status\/1707235494965186831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Condemning Congress leader Khaira\u2019s arrest, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) also attacked the AAP-led Punjab government. The SAD took to social media platform X and said the arrest of the Congress leader was a political vendetta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It further said that political differences aside, the Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar condemns the arrest borne out of the witch hunt and political vendetta against a very respected Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, a fierce critic of Bhagwant Mann and AAP-led Punjab government, the SAD wrote in the social media post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khaira, a member of the legislative assembly from the Bholath constituency in Punjab was arrested today in an old drugs case. He also serves as the chairman of the All India Kisan Congress. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira has been arrested by the Punjab Police in an old drugs smuggling case on September 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":490073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1500,125714],"tags":[160,160802,96338],"yst_prominent_words":[44610,8533,23792,14319,12386,23251,49977,63629,63628,63625],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/09\/28124743\/Sukh-pal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490059"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=490059"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=490059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->