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CHANDIGARH, November 24: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today accepted the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal’s challenge to hold a public rally at Bathinda.
“I wish you and your father also were in a position to accept my challenge and come out in public to check your popularity”, he taunted the Deputy Chief Minister, while pointing out how Akalis were still being chased by the angry mobs and their ministers and leaders getting slapped and thrashed.
Capt Amarinder said, by holding the rally at Bathinda the Badals had desperately tried to retrieve their lost confidence but had miserably failed. “You can fool some people sometimes, but not all the people all the times”, he told Badals, while adding, their bluff had already been called and their countdown had already started and all this was very much written on the wall.
The former Chief Minister also warned the father-son duo to desist from their “fanatic and venomous anti-Congress” propaganda, which is devoid of any reason or logic and is aimed at only vitiating the atmosphere. “Don’t forget we can hit back faster and harder”, he warned Sukhbir and the senior Badal, adding, “those who live in glass houses should not throw stones”.
“Yes we will hold a public rally at the same venue and it will be bigger than yours where people will come of their own and shall not be imported from Haryana and Rajasthan and of course there will be no state-sponsorship and any misuse of government machinery”, he told Sukhbir.
Capt Amarinder said, yesterday’s rally at Bathinda only exposed the crisis of confidence the Badals are suffering from. “If anything that came out of the rally yesterday it was your shaken confidence which you are desperately trying to retrieve but have repeatedly failed”, he told the senior and junior Badal, adding, “in the heart of your hearts both of you know that most of the people had only made a reluctant attendance perforce”.
