Ludhiana, April 6 -- Congress leaders on Saturday alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab may again try to implicate its Ludhiana West candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu now that elections are round the corner.

Ashu was booked in a foodgrain-transportation scam in 2022 by the Punjab vigilance bureau. However, the high court quashed the FIR against him in December 2024.

Addressing a press conference here, senior Congress leaders, including former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretaries Alok Sharma and Ravindra Dalvi, former ministers Pargat Singh and Rakesh Pandey, along with Ashu, warned against any such move to implicate him.

This was the first press conference of the Congr...