Chandigarh, June 26 -- The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today condemned the arrest of senior SAD leader and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia in a "false case with the sole purpose of suppressing the voice of the opposition" and diverting attention from the scams and complete governance failure of the Aam Aadmi Party government. In a statement here, senior leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said both the previous Congress government and the present AAP government had been trying to implicate Majithia in a false case under the NDPS Act.

Dr Cheema said the truth of the matter was that Majithia had been cleared of all wrongdoing of the courts and had been secured bail in the NDPS case.

"Again, the AAP government is opening the case under fal...