Chandigarh, June 25, 2025 — Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders on Tuesday stepped up their attack on Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia following revelations from an ongoing probe into alleged drug money laundering. Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema questioned the source of Majithia’s amassed ₹500 crore wealth, directly linking it to the state’s long-standing drug crisis.
“Will Majithia explain if his wealth of ₹500 crore comes from the drug trade?” Cheema asked at a press briefing in Chandigarh, asserting that the AAP government is determined to root out narco-politics from the state. “This is an unprecedented war on drugs, and it is being fought against those who profited under previous Akali-BJP and Congress regimes,” he said.
The remarks come a day after the Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested Majithia, citing ₹540 crore in laundered drug money and undisclosed assets allegedly linked to him and his wife Genieve Kaur. The ongoing investigations, backed by FIR No. 02 of 2021 under the NDPS Act, point to large-scale financial irregularities, foreign transactions, and asset acquisitions with no clear income source.
Rebutting accusations of political vendetta, Punjab Information and Public Relations Minister Aman Arora emphasized that all enforcement actions were rooted in evidence and due process. “The law is being allowed to take its course. No one is being targeted without reason. If you are innocent, you have nothing to fear,” Arora said, underlining that the operation is legal, not political.
Calling the government’s anti-drug campaign a moral and electoral mandate, Arora stated, “This is not about politics; it is about justice. The people of Punjab demanded an end to this menace, and we are fulfilling that promise.”
The AAP government has received public support for its three-pronged EDP strategy Enforcement, Deaddiction, and Prevention. Since launching “Yudh Nashian Virudh,” over 19,000 arrests have been made, with daily raids and rehabilitation initiatives ongoing across Punjab.
With political temperatures rising, the Majithia arrest is being seen as a major inflection point in Punjab’s war against drugs, sending a strong signal that political stature will not shield anyone from accountability.
