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CHANDIGARH, July 30: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today challenged the Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal to swear before the Akal Takhat that his government had not ordered the land acquisition for the construction of SYL in 1978.
Capt Amarinder 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.
He also condemned Delhi Chief Minister 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.
Reacting to Mr Badal’s statement that he (Capt Amarinder) was spreading disinformation about the SYL, Capt Amarinder reiterated that it was Mr Badal who had issued the notification for land acquisition for the SYL in 1978 and it was now again the same Mr Badal who had deliberately weakened Punjab’s case in the Supreme Court on SYL for his narrow and petty political interests.
“Mr 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.
AAP, Akalis playing fixed match
Referring to the threats of arrest hurled at each other by the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia in Amritsar yesterday, Capt Amarinder said, they had brought down the level of serious political discourse to a petty fight between two street bullies.
Apprehending that the two were playing a fixed match, he said, there appeared to be a deliberate design on part of the Akalis to promote and strengthen the AAP in the misplaced hope and calculation that it may damage the Congress. “They are desperately hoping that a strong AAP will damage the Congress so that they may get re-elected and that is why they are trying to revive AAP”, he said, while telling them, “but rest assured, we won’t let that happen”.
Referring to the threats of arrest hurled at each other by Kejriwal and Majithia, Capt Amarinder said, they were behaving like two street goons. “This is the level they have brought down the political discourse to”, he said, while adding, “when the state should be concerned about the farmers’ suicides, drugs, unemployment and economy, they are behaving like street bullies threatening each other with post-dated arrest warrants”.
He observed, the way Majithia got summons delivered personally to Kejriwal only indicated that he was helping him to divert the public attention from the embarrassing situation the AAP had placed itself in, with a series of follies and fiascoes. “It was a clear attempt to deflect the public attention from Bhagwant Mann’s and the manifesto fiasco and help the AAP to arrest its slide and drift”, he remarked, while asserting that the Akalis were trying to strengthen the AAP.
