Badal won’t ask Majithia to quit

Chandigarh: Even as opposition parties mounting pressure, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal ruled out asking Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia to resign after the Enforcement Directorate served summons on him in connection with a international drug racket. Asked whether he would ask Majithia to step down from his post till the investigation is over, Badal said, “I have never demanded resignation from anybody.” Reminded that senior SAD leader Sarwan Singh Phillaur had resigned in May this year after his son’s name cropped up in the drug racket, Badal said, “Phillaur resigned on his own. I never asked him to resign.”