Bajwa questions Sukhbir’s political loyalty
Tuesday, 03/11/2015
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Monday questioned the political loyalty of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal stating the public had the right to know whether he was faithful to his ally BJP or INLD in Haryana.
“Sukhbir had on Sunday lambasted the BJP government in Haryana during an INLD rally at Rohtak. The party has been in alliance with the Akali Dal for decades. Moreover, his wife Harsimrat Kaur Badal is a cabinet minister in the Modi government at the Centre,” Bajwa said.
“One would like to know, what standards of professional and political ethics is he setting by sailing in two boats, that, too, of the BJP’s arch rivals,” he said.
“The problem seems to be that Sukhbir Badal wants to appear in public and he can’t face the wrath of people in his own state, not even in his home district of Muktsar. Perhaps, he needed a platform and that was provided to him by his family friends in Haryana. His attack on Manohar Lal Khattar government was the price that he had to pay for speaking from the INLD stage,” said Bajwa.
Referring to Punjab government’s recommendation of a CBI probe into the cases of sacrilege, Bajwa stated that his stand on the alleged involvement of state agencies in the incident stands vindicated.
The ‘foreign hand’ theory was clearly an attempt by the Badals to divert public attention and mislead the people from their own devious designs and incompetency, he said.
