Sukhbir’s authority under threat: Jakhar
Wednesday, 14/06/2017
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Jalandhar : PPCC president Sunil Jakhar today warned his SAD counterpart Sukhbir Badal that the presence of SGPC chief Kirpal Singh Badungar at a dharna in Patiala could be an attempt by the committee chief of turning the tables on the former Deputy CM.
“It seems that Badungar is taking a shot at doing what former SGPC presidents Gurcharan Singh Tohra and Jagdev Singh Talwandi could not accomplish. The former wants to subvert the Badals who have been at the helm of SAD affairs for the past many decades. His presence there is being construed as a challenge to Sukhbir’s authority,” Jakhar quipped at a workers’ meeting here today.
As Sukhbir Badal had yesterday issued a statement saying that Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh should educate Jakhar on Sikh ethos and governance, the Congress chief countered it by saying, “Sukhbir should first stop playing with the sentiments of Sikhs by mixing religion with politics. The biggest example was for everyone to see at his party’s protest in Patiala.”
“My father Balram Jakhar taught me ‘Manas ki jaat, sabhe ek hi pehchaan bo’. Sukhbir evaded a reply on my query as to how both bidders for the LED advertisement contract at the Heritage Walk site in Amritsar were from Jaipur and none from Punjab,” he questioned.
