Sukhbir seeks probe into AAP funding

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday requested Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to initiate a probe into the funding of AAP allegedly by “extremist elements abroad” which aims to destabilise the state ahead of assembly elections next year.

Sukhbir, in a letter to Singh, requested him to launch an immediate investigation into the “huge amount of money” being received by AAP from “radical elements residing in North America, Europe and Australia”. Sukhbir, who also holds the Home portfolio in the state claimed, “A thorough investigation into the money trail would unravel and expose those trying to disturb the hard won peace of Punjab through incidents of sacrilege and violence.”  “Delhi CM and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal had virtually revived the radical groups who had been completely marginalised in the state by initiating a dialogue with them,” he alleged in the letter.