Punjab Private Photo Row intensifies as AAP Minister Ravjot Singh hits back at SAD’s Bikram Majithia, asking, “Will you even enter the bedrooms of people?” while calling the act “ridiculous” and “total nonsense.”
Punjab’s local bodies minister, Ravjot Singh, announced on Wednesday that a formal police complaint has been filed against senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia for sharing edited personal photographs on social media, allegedly to “scandalise and defame him.”
Singh referred to Majithia as “an irrelevant leader from an irrelevant party raising an irrelevant issue.”
He also suggested that Majithia’s actions had a casteist undertone, targeting Scheduled Caste (SC) leaders of the AAP, specifically mentioning minister Lal Chand Kataruchak and former minister Balkar Singh, whose “sleazy videos” were previously disseminated by Majithia.
All three individuals belong to the SC community. Singh accused Majithia of a history of oppressing SCs and Dalits during his time in power, contrasting this with the AAP government’s support for these communities.
He stated,
“The photograph shared on social media is a disgraceful and unethical attempt to mislead the public and defame me. This woman is someone’s daughter, mother, or sister. This act is not just an attack on me but an insult to all women. Such tactics reflect the low level of politics practised by such leaders.”
Singh clarified that the photographs in question were eight to ten years old and featured his ex-wife, reiterating that they had been “edited.”
He expressed that this act not only insulted him but also caused undue suffering to his former wife. He concluded by saying he would leave the matter in the hands of God and the public.
In response, Jalandhar MP and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi criticized the AAP’s attempt to inject a caste angle into the controversy over the alleged “sleazy photographs.”
In a statement on his X account, Channi remarked,
“One after the other, obscene videos of Aam Aadmi Party ministers coming out are a grave disrespect to women. It is wrong to link this issue with casteism in any way. It would be better if the entire AAP party apologises and resigns.”
Punjab AAP chief and minister for good governance and information technology, Aman Arora, also condemned Majithia for releasing “private” and “morphed” images of Ravjot Singh.
Arora stated during a press conference,
“I never anticipated that someone could take politics to such a low level. This is not right,”
When asked if the issue had harmed the party’s reputation, he replied,
“Dr. Ravjot Singh has already clarified that these were his private photos with his ex-wife, which were being posted on social media after AI morphing. How will this dent the party’s image?”
Instead, Arora suggested that this incident raises questions about Majithia’s character.
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He queried,
“Why does Majithia get such photos or news just two days ahead of the elections? I mean, it is a very sorry state of affairs. Only a handful, two or four leaders of Punjab, one can count on fingers, resort to such a low level of politics.”
He further questioned,
“Will they even enter the bedrooms of people? It is ridiculous. What these people are doing is total nonsense.”