I do not have bank account anywhere abroad: Preneet

Congress candidate and Union Minister Preneet Kaur today told the Election Commission that she did not have any bank account abroad.
"My covering candidate (Raninder, her son) or I (Preneet) do not have any foreign account anywhere abroad," she said in her reply to the Commission which had sought her comments on allegations against her in this regard.
Incumbent MP Preneet Kaur is a Congress candidate from Patiala Lok Sabha seat.
In her reply, she said that the complaint filed against her was made with "malafide intentions".
"The alleged accounts are imaginary and creation of the (Akali) candidate and the alleged Election Agent or other concerned persons," she said.

Demanding the complaint be rejected, Kaur said, "the alleged objections are for the sake of false propaganda during election campaign."

She further reasoned that the alleged objections were liable to be rejected as after the scrutiny was complete, no objections could be entertained thereafter.
The three-time MP further claimed that the similar complaint against her husband Amarinder Singh was rejected by District Returning Officer of Amritsar Ravi Bhagat on April 10.
She demanded from Election Commission to take "civil and criminal" action against complainant.
Union Minister of State Preneet Kaur, seeking re-election from her traditional bastion Patiala, was issued notice by District Returning Officer for allegedly concealing information on her purported "bank accounts" in Jersey.

In the notice, DRO Priyank Bharti had asked Preneet to reply within 48 hours on the complaint filed against her by SAD candidate's election agent.
SAD's Deepinder Dhillon, a turncoat and once loyal to Preneet, was pitted against her from Patiala Lok Sabha seat.
Dhillon had filed a complaint through election agent before the DRO alleging that Preneet had an account in Jersey about which she did not mention while filing her nominations.
Dhillon had sought cancellation of Preneet's candidature for "concealing" facts in her affidavit filed before the RO.
On April 9, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had alleged that Congress candidate in Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency Amarinder Singh had committed "perjury" by not disclosing the foreign bank accounts of his wife and son in his nomination papers, a charge totally denied by the former Chief Minister.

Swamy had released details of purported bank accounts of Amarinder's wife Preneet Kaur, a Union Minister, and son Raninder Singh to the media and asked him to make full disclosures in this regard.
Amarinder had quickly dismissed the allegations, saying they were baseless and ridiculous as his wife had no foreign bank account.
Preneet had filed her nomination papers on April 7.