Amarinder: I got threat call for opposing Bluestar Memorial
Tuesday, 16/10/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20121016/punjab.htm#3
Chandigarh : Punjab Pradesh Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh today said he had received a threat call from Germany for speaking out against the Operation Bluestar Memorial at the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar.
He said the caller asked him as to why he was issuing statements against the construction of the memorial. “I asked the caller his age. He, in return, asked me what had that to do with the memorial issue. I replied that his age had everything to do with the discussion”. Amarinder said he told the caller that industrialists were making a beeline for other states and if the atmosphere in the state was vitiated again, things could turn from bad to worse.
Meanwhile, sources said a senior police officer had rung up Congress Legislature Party Leader Sunil Jakhar, telling him that the latter’s name had come up for discussion during a meeting of a radical group in Germany.
The sources said the discussion had centred on “teaching him a lesson” for speaking out against the construction of Bluestar Memorial during the last Vidhan Sabha session. The CLP Leader is reported to have asked the state police to take appropriate steps, if need be.
The sources said the radicals were well-entrenched in Germany as the latter was most liberal in granting asylum to such elements during the days of militancy in Punjab.
