Capt challenges Badal to swear before Akal Takht
Sunday, 31/07/2016
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Chandigarh : Punjab Pardesh Congress Committee president Amarinder Singh on Saturday challenged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to swear before the Akal Takht that his government had not ordered the land acquisition for the construction of SYL in 1978. He challenged him to deny and dispute what former Haryana Chief Minister Devi Lal, who happened to be his close friend, had said in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha about their friendship and its influence towards facilitating the construction of the SYL.
Reacting to Badal’s statement that he (Amarinder) was spreading disinformation about the SYL, Amarinder reiterated that it was Badal who had issued the notification for land acquisition for the SYL in 1978 and it was now again the same Badal who had deliberately weakened Punjab’s case in the Supreme Court on SYL for his narrow and petty political interests.
“Badal wants to wriggle out of his decade-long failures and now he will make the SC order against Punjab an excuse to resign and I am sure that was the reason his government weakened state’s case and did not plead it properly,” he said.
He condemned Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia for behaving like street bullies by threatening each other with post-dated arrest warrants and bringing down the political discourse to such a low level.
