Badals committed to own interests, not state: Captain
Friday, 11/01/2019
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CHANDIGARH: Lashing out at Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal for questioning his loyalties, Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday said while he was loyal to both, his state and his party, the Badal family was devoted only to themselves.
“For Harsimrat and the rest of the Badals, neither Punjab and its people nor the Sikh Panth of whom they claimed to be the guardians, are important, as they are only faithful to their own personal interests,” said the chief minister.
In a riposte to Harsimrat’s allegations against him and his government, Amarinder said the Union minister had made unfounded and baseless accusations with the aim of garnering votes in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. “Harsimrat, like the rest of the Badal clan, has mastered the art of deceit and treachery and continued to indulge in untruths and fabrications even after the total rejection of her party and its politics by the people of Punjab,” he said, adding, “This shows the desperation of the Akalis in the face of their imminent defeat in the parliamentary elections that are just a few weeks away.”
In her desperate bid to fool the people, Harsimrat had unwittingly endorsed his statement that the Centre had failed to release funds yet for the development of the Kartarpur corridor, he pointed out. Since the Kartarpur corridor was a central project, his government could acquire the necessary land for it only once the Union government identifies the same, which it had failed to do so far, contrary to Harsmirat’s claims, said the CM.
