Capt targets CM over ties with Chautalas
Saturday, 27/09/2014
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Chandigarh : Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today asked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to clarify whether he was in politics to serve the public or watching his personal and family interests.
Referring to Badal's claims that he had personal and family relationship with Chautalas in Haryana, which he cannot overlook and which made him to oppose the BJP, Capt Amarinder said, "It is like running with the hare and hunting with the hounds."
"If you are really so much concerned about your personal and family ties with the Chautalas, you should better resign as the Punjab Chief Minister and campaign for them in your personal capacity," he said in a statement issued here today.
"That you are there in politics to watch and safeguard your personal family interests more than the public interest is too well known a fact among the Punjabis across the globe… Since you have now admitted it yourself, you have no moral right to claim yourself to be the guardian and the representative of the interests of the people of Punjab or that of the panth," he added.
It was intriguing to note that Badal shared the dais at a rally in Jind on Thursday with leaders like Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav who were spitting venom against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom he (Badal) claims to be a personal friend, he said.
