The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday accused the ruling Congress of playing a friendly match with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by not taking action against Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Khaira in a drug case.

Demanding the Speaker Rana KP Singh to extend the winter session of state Assembly, which begins on Monday, to discuss the issue, the SAD-BJP delegation said serious charges had been levelled against Khaira by the lower court which had also summoned him as an accused in a trans border drug case with Pakistani links.

It said the state government was yet to present the supplementary challan in the case despite the high court upholding the decision of the lower court and ruling out any possibility of a political vendetta against Khaira.

The delegation members also stated that the personal security officer of Khaira, who was also an accused in the case, had been shifted to the security detail of his brother-in-law Justice (retd) Ranjit Singh, who had been asked to probe the incidents of sacrilege by the Congress government.

The delegation demanded the Speaker to extend the winter session from three days to ten so that emergent problems of the state including non implementation of poll promises, introduction of PCOCA act and complete stoppage of all development works in Punjab could be discussed.

Later while briefing reporters, SAD leader Bikram Majithia said among other things, the SAD-BJP government wanted to discuss the state of farmers who had been declared defaulters by banks and were not getting fertiliser from cooperative societies because they trusted the government that the loan waiver announced by it would be implemented.

Stating that farmers had not received a penny from the proposed loan waiver, Majithia said that recently in another ant-farmer decision, the government had refused to hike the state assured price (SAP) of sugarcane because sugar barons were part of the government.

He said that the SAD-BJP also wanted the government to make the contents of the proposed PCOCA (Punjab Control of Organised Crime Act) law public.

“There is a widespread feeling that this will result in putting constraints on personal freedom and liberty. The government should call an all party meeting to discuss the same besides holding meetings with civil society,” he added.