Punjab Pradesh Mahila Congress president Malti Thapar, who hails from Moga, accused Modi of carrying out surveillance on a woman in Gujarat "negating her right to privacy" and claimed that the people wouldn't support such a person.
Asserting that the so-called "Modi factor was no factor" at all in the coming Lok Sabha elections, Thapar accused Modi of communalising and polarising the country's politics.
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Dubbing the Punjab government a "mafia", Thapar alleged that there was a nexus between ruling Akali Dal leaders, drug mafia and a section of police. To substantiate it, she referred to the alleged involvement of Akali leader Maninder Singh Aulakh in the multi-crore drug racket.
"What action has Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal taken against Akali MLA Amarpal Singh Bony Ajnala whose gunmen and beacon-fitted car Aulakh had used?" she asked.
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