Capt: SAD-INLD alliance ‘political perversion’
Thursday, 11/09/2014
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Chandigarh: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Captain Amarinder on Wednesday said that the Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD’s) alliance with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana, while sharing power with the BJP in Punjab ‘not only betrays their moral bankruptcy, but also amounts to political perversion that has hardly any parallels in the history and politics across India’.
Reacting to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Deputy Chief Minister son Sukhbir Badal’s assertion that the INLD and Akalis will form the government in Haryana, Amarinder asked them to clarify their stand on various interstate issues with Haryana, like the transfer of Chandigarh and the sharing of river waters before leading the INLD-SAD campaign there.
Former Chief Minister observed, “Badals’ decision to align with the INLD in Haryana was their personal as he had not taken the party into confidence about it,” he pointed out, adding, “The father-son duo did not bother to do the formality (of taking approval from the party) even”.
The senior Congress leader remarked, “Badals owe an explanation to the people of Punjab as how can they be the alliance partners of a party in Punjab while opposing the same party in the immediate neighbourhood of Haryana. “Doesn’t it reflect the dual character?”
“I can understand that Badals’ may have family commitments with the Chautalas in Haryana, but should that mean they can compromise the interests of Punjab for that?” he added.
