Badal once toppled Speaker’s turban: Capt
Friday, 15/03/2013
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Chandigarh : Former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said it was not appropriate of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to talk of Parliamentary values when "he had himself pounced on former Speaker Surjit Singh Minhas and toppled the latter's turban".
Talking to The Tribune, Capt Amarinder said this incident took place in 1986 when he (Capt) was the legislature party leader and Badal was the head of the 23-member breakaway Akali group, which had parted ways with Surjit Singh Barnala.
Describing the incident, Amarinder said at one moment, all the legislators had been protesting against the Speaker and in the next, “before you could say Jack Robinson, Badal ran up the steps to the Speaker's chair and pounced on him". The former CM said Minhas had been dragged from his chair and even roughed up in the melee.
