Amarinder slams AAP apology over Golden Temple pic row
Thursday, 07/07/2016
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Chandigarh : Capt Amarinder also condemned AAP for using their party symbol, ‘broom’, along with the picture of Darbar Sahab on their posters, which he said is blasphemous and unpardonable.
“This is not only sacrilegious but outrageous as well that the party did not care about the sentiments of people it is so ambitiously restless to represent”, he remarked. Besides, he said, comparing the election manifesto with holy books like the Gita and Guru Granth Sahab also betrayed the AAP’s ignorance and insensitivity towards the religious sentiments of people.
“These are highly insensitive, blasphemous and unpardonable acts by the AAP leaders”, he said, further adding, “they just can’t get away with these by tendering an apology without actually meaning to apologise”.
“Here is a party, restlessly ambitious to rule Punjab and yet so insensitive and ignorant about the sensitivities of its people”, Capt Amarinder remarked, while referring to repeated acts of outrageous sacrilege committed by its leaders.
Sacrilege: PPCC chief demands arrest of Naresh Yadav
Chandigarh: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday asked the Punjab Police as why they were not arresting the Delhi AAP MLA Naresh Yadav even after being confronted with facts and evidence by the co-accused Vijay Kumar. He also lashed out at the party for its repeated sacrilegious and blasphemous acts hurting religious sentiments of people.
“It is surprising that the police are not arresting the AAP MLA”, he said, while wondering what made police to go so soft with the accused despite grave allegations with substantial evidence against him. Or, he asked, there is some subtle understanding between the AAP and the ruling Akali-BJP alliance, to disturb peace in the state, which prevents any action against the MLA.
The PPCC president maintained that there was a pattern in the sacrilegious incidents.
