SAD, BJP both pursuing divisive agenda: Bajwa
Monday, 27/10/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20141027/punjab.htm#7
Ludhiana : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Partap Singh Bajwa today accused the SAD and its alliance partner in the state (BJP) of trying to “divide” Punjab on communal lines for petty political ends.
Bajwa is on a four-day visit to Ludhiana. He attended a party function at which Gurpreet Bassi Gogi took charge as president of the DCC, Ludhiana (urban).
Alluding to the “strained” ties between the alliance partners, Bajwa said the state unit of the BJP wanted to dissociate itself from the SAD.
He claimed that the SAD and BJP game plan could possibly be to part ways to fight the 2017 Assembly elections on communal lines and then join hands post-elections, on the BJP-Shiv Sena pattern in Maharashtra.
Reacting to state BJP president Kamal Sharma’s statement on the Rajiv-Longowal accord, Bajwa said it was strange that the BJP had “remembered” the accord after 30 years. “With the BJP in power at the Centre, nothing stops it from implementing the Rajiv-Longowal accord in toto,” he remarked.
Bajwa accused the BJP of being “an equal partner in crime against the people of Punjab”. He said the party had not kept its poll prosmises to the people. “Narendra Modi had promised that drug trafficking would be dealt with strictly and that the drug mafia in the state would be eliminated. Jagdish Bhola (key accused in the drug racket) has named minister Bikram Singh Majithia in the case. Why has the BJP not demanded a CBI inquiry into the case,” he asked.
He said instead of demanding Chief Parliamentary Secretary Avinash Chander’s resignation, BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu should ask his wife, Dr Navjot Kaur, to quit the Badal government.
