Badal trying to cover non-performance by launching morcha: Bajwa Chandigarh, July 20: The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President, Mr. Partap Singh Bajwa, today asserted that the Chief Minister, Mr. Parkash Singh Badal, was trying to cover across-the-board non-performance and brazen corruption in his government by launching the morcha against the Sikhs in Haryana which in itself was unprecedented and might trigger internecine war in the community. In a statement issued here today, Mr. Bajwa lashed out at the Chief Minister for trying to exploit the Sikh sentiments in Punjab and divert the attention of the people as his government had totally failed to meet the aspirations of the people who were up in anger as evident from the Lok Sabha election. He said yet at another level, the aim was to mobilise the support of the Akali Dal which had been completely eroded and the same had been reflected in the humiliating defeat of the now Union Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley in Amritsar. “Mr. Badal has always used the Sikh politics to further interests of his own and that of his family through such agitations. It is the common Sikhs who have been making sacrifices and going to jails. Such agitations were exploited to consolidate support base but once in power, he has always backtracked from the very demands on which the party would push the people into such uncalled for struggles. This has been his track record and the people of Punjab should not get exploited by his emotive talk again. If he is so keen, he should make his daughter in law Mrs. Harsimrat Kaur Badal resign from the Union cabinet as a first step. Only this will prove his sincerity”, he added. He said yet at another level, it was apparent that he was making way for his son and the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, who has become unpopular with the people, to take over in place. He must ensure that during the agitation, no member of the Badal family would accept any position of power. He said, however, before launching the agitation, Mr. Badal must clarify the basic issue as to why was he out to scuttle the aspirations of the Sikhs in Haryana to manage their own shrines. The Sikh leaders of Haryana spearheading this movement had been taking up this issue with the religio-political authorities concerned in Punjab. However, the leadership in Punjab ignored their pleas and now the situation had reached a flash point. Mr Bajwa expressed the apprehension in case the Akali Dal launched this agitation, the situation might flare up. At the national level, this situation might be exploited by the Narendra Modi government to administer the “bitter pill” to the people as he and his ministers had been saying rather than fulfilling the poll promises of the BJP. He perceived tacit support of the BJP at the national level to the effort of the Akali Dal to put the region on flame again for parochial political interests.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:33:23 +0000
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