Chandigarh : 8 May : Panjab Congress President Smt. Rajinder Kaur Bhattal has constituted a Committee of Senior and eminent lawyers of the state to help the victims of Government repression during the Zila Parishad and Panchayti Raj elections. The Committee consists of former Advocate Generals Ch. Harbhagwan Singh ,Sh. Gopal Krishan Chatrath, and S. Joginder Singh Wasu,.former Deputy Speaker S. Naseeb Singh Gill, Chairman of Legal Cell of Punjab Congress Sh. S.K. Pipat and former M.L.A. S. Basant Singh. These members will be available in the Congress Bhawan, Chandigarh for all kinds of consultation and assistance for filing writ petitions and complaints with the State Election Commission w.e.f. 9.5.2008.
Disclosing this here today the Chief Spokesman of Punjab Congress S. Bir Devinder Singh said that a delegation of Punjab Congress led by Vice President Punjab Congress S. Avtar Singh Brar M.L.A. Faridkot will meet the State Election Commissioner Sh. A.K. Dubey on 9th of May at 12.30 p.m. to apprise him of the latest cases of highhandedness and violation of Code of Conduct by the Ruling SAD alliance. He said that the President PCC has instructed the Legal Committee to take all legal recourses for saving the democracy which is being blatantly butchered by the Akali Government.