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Chandigarh: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today warned against the hidden agenda of the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to divert public attention from his failures on all fronts, particularly the law and order and the economy. He said, realising that the ground had already slipped beneath his feet Mr Badal was now trying to push for the radical and extremist agenda which has the dangerous potential to push Punjab back to the dark days.
“Since you have proved to be a complete failure as a Chief Minister both in terms of economy and administration, you are back to your favourite game of resorting to the radical agenda and playing with people’s emotions at the cost of peace in Punjab”, Capt Amarinder said, while referring to Mr Badal’s statement to claim back the artefacts and manuscripts which went missing during the Operation Bluestar in 1984.
Former Chief Minister pointed out, Mr Badal has been Chief Minister thrice after the Operation Bluestar and during this period there was an NDA government between 1998 and 2004 of which his party was a part and parcel, while he was himself the CM between 1997 and 2002. “Why did he not raise the issue of the artefacts and manuscripts at that time and why only now?” he asked, while adding, it is just because Mr Badal wants to divert the public attention from his failures and hide behind the extremist agenda.
He also referred to the Punjab AG’s statement in the Punjab and Haryana High Court wherein he stated that the state did not have money even to pay the salaries to which one of the Honourable judges retorted, why the state was not declaring financial emergency. He said, this only vindicated the Congress’ stand which has been continuously maintaining that Punjab was a fit case for financial emergency.
Capt Amarinder had a dig at Mr Badal for accusing him (Capt Amarinder) of politicising the issue of the losses to the farmers. “After all what are we there for?” he asked Badal, while adding, “just because you are saying that I am politicising the losses to the farmers does not exonerate you of your failures to make timely arrangements for the procurement of wheat”.
He said, Mr Badal cannot blame the nature for the losses suffered by farmers to their grains lying in open in the mandis. “You are trying to mix up the two issues to wriggle yourself out”, he told Mr Badal, pointing out had the wheat lying in mandis been lifted on time it could have been saved from the damage it suffered due to the recent rains. “Please do not blame nature for everything”, he advised Mr Badal, asking, “if everything is to be left to the nature then what are you there for?”
