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CHANDIGARH, November 17: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal for cunningly pleading meekness by trying to offer apology in an apparent bid to cover up all his failures. “No apology can wash yours sins”, he told Mr Badal, saying, he was yet again trying to deflect public attention by his “characteristic theatrical histrionics”.
Capt Amarinder also rapped the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for his malicious campaign against the Congress. “While on the one hand his father was claiming to apologise, Sukhbir was trying to stoke the fires by his malicious and provocative statements against the Congress”, he observed.
The former Chief Minister asked Badal as for what sins he wanted to apologise. “The list is too long and if you think that by tendering a verbal apology, without actually meaning it, you will get away with everything you are badly mistaken”, he told the Chief Minister, saying, people are not bothered about his theatrics as they want concrete action. “Or is this an admission on your part of your failures which you have realised and now and feel like tendering an apology to the people?” he asked.
The senior Congress leader asked what purpose will the apology serve to the families whose innocent boys who were killed by the police, to the devout Sikhs whose sentiments have been deeply hurt over the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib, to the innocent youth who were falsely framed and badly tortured in police custody, to the farmers’ families who committed suicide, or those whose crops failed or those whose industrial units have been shut down or the tens of thousands of unemployed youth in the state whom your police lashes with lathis every now and then.
Capt Amarinder also asked the Deputy Chief Minister, who is also the Home Minister of the state, to explain the total failure of law and order in the state. “How long can you survive by accusing the Congress of supporting the Sarbat Khalsa?” he asked, while pointing out, the Sarbat Khalsa was held on November 10, where the state is in turmoil for a long period now.
“Before accusing Congress of sending people there, let you tell us what action your department took when Guru Granth Sahib was stolen from a Gurdwara in Bargadi in the month of June?”, he asked, while telling him to better get serious about his own job than trying to blame others for his own failures.
Mann living in fools’ paradise
Capt Amarinder also took a dig at the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president Simranjit Singh Mann for his claims that the Sarbat Khalsa was a gathering for Khalistan. “Mann is still living in a fools’ paradise”, he remarked, while adding, the people there had gathered in anger and outrage against the Badal government. He said, by saying so, Mann was trying to help Badal, who is also desperately trying to deflect public attention from his failures. He did not rule out a subtle understanding between Mann and Badal. “Otherwise, why did Mann make a quiet exit from the Sarbat Khalsa without addressing it?” he asked.
RSS trying to polarise people in Punjab by targeting Christians
Capt Amarinder condemned the RSS efforts to polarise people in Punjab by targeting Christians. Referring to senior RSS functionary Indresh Kumar’s statement in Jalandhar where he had alleged nexus between the Christian community and the Naxalites, the former Chief Minister said, since the elections are about a year away, the RSS is now trying polarisation here also which will not be allowed. “We will not allow your design to succeed in Punjab”, he told RSS, while observing, they should better have learnt their lessons in Bihar before resuming their dirty tricks in Punjab.
