Capt raps Badal for resorting to alleged blackmail politics
Tuesday, 28/04/2015
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chandigarh: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday lashed out at Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for what he alleged as “resorting to his characteristic ways of political blackmail”. “It is so characteristic of Badal to rake up panthic issues for personal vested interests,” he remarked, while referring to Badal’s speech at the Northern Zonal Council in New Delhi recently. Amarinder said: “For Badal no Sikh is a true Sikh if he does not succumb to his line. If any Sikh is with the Congress or any other party like the BJP, he is not a Sikh for Badal.” He recalled: “Badal had even termed Panth Rattan Sardar Gurcharan Singh Tohra and Jagdev Singh Talwandi as traitors.”
Former Chief Minister said this was the “last and desperate bid of Badal to rake up panthic issues to conceal his own failures as he had realised ground slipping beneath his feet.” “Hazoor Sahib has an independent management body and they have every right to appoint their own people to the committee.” he pointed out, while asking ‘why should Badal have any objection, particularly when the gurdwara management there was being run very efficiently.’
He said that Badal should better have raised the issue of farmers like his Haryana counterpart did and got heavy concessions and relaxations for procurement of wheat in that state. “But, Badal is never interested in anyone else other than his own self and hence is raising the imaginary issues.”
Bhattal too cries foul over procurement
Chandigarh: Former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal on Monday took on the state government for what she alleged as “clueless and failing to evolve proper mechanism to lift wheat leading to great deal of unrest among farmers of the state.” In a statement issued here, she said that the situation had turned from bad to worse with regard to lifting of wheat. “Reports have been received from certain areas that farmers were sent home by procuring agencies.”
