Punjab CM lands in US, appeals for peace
Friday, 10/08/2012
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Punjab-CM-lands-in-US-appeals-for-peace/articleshow/15429332.cms
OAK CREEK (WISCONSIN): Describing the Wisconsin gurdwara shooting that claimed six lives as "very shocking" , Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has appealed to the Sikhs in the US to keep "peace and harmony" , as he met the victims' families and visited the injured.
Badal, who is on a private visit to the US with several of his cabinet colleagues, reached Milwaukee area in Wisconsin on Wednesday and met the victims' families.
The Punjab chief minister is also expected to attend the visitation for the gurdwara shooting victims on Friday, which will take place from 9 am to 11 am local time at the Oak Creek High School. "I came here for a wedding; I never expected such a thing," Badal said.
When the shooting incident occurred on Sunday, Badal said he was in Delhi.
He arrived in the Milwaukee area late on Tuesday and visited Froedtert Hospital, where three of those wounded in the attack are in critical condition. He also met other victims' families.
On his arrival in Chicago , Badal urged the members of the Sikh community in the US to keep "peace and harmony" despite the incident , the worst for a small but strong community in the US. "Everybody is worried. We never expected such a thing would happen in the US," he said.
