Amarinder condemns Badal for raking up panthic issues
Tuesday, 28/04/2015
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Chandigarh : Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for resorting to “political blackmailing”.
“It is so characteristic of Badal to rake up panthic issues for personal vested interests,” he said, while referring to Badal’s speech at the recent Northern Zonal Council meeting in New Delhi.
Capt Amarinder said, “For Badal, no Sikh is a ‘true Sikh’ if he does not succumb to his (Badal’s) line.”
“If any Sikh is with the Congress or any other party like the BJP, he is not a Sikh for Badal,” he said, adding, “He (Badal) had even termed Panth Rattan Sardar Gurcharan Singh Tohra and Jagdev Singh Talwandi as traitors.”
The former Chief Minister said, “It was the last desperate bid by Badal to rake up panthic issues to conceal his own failures as he 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 said, and asked, “Why should Badal have any objection, particularly when the gurdwara management there was being run very efficiently?”
He said Badal should have raised the issue of farmers like his Haryana counterpart did and got great concessions and relaxations for procurement of wheat in that state. “If anybody is alienated in Punjab, it is the jobless youth,” he said. Amarinder said Badal should be more concerned about the drug addiction that had ruined the entire generation.
