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CHANDIGARH, October 22: Senior Congress leader and Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh today said that the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had badly lost the confidence of the same panth he had exploited all these years for his vested interests and now was the time for him to quit. “For about a month now there is complete anarchy in Punjab and Badal has lost control over everything”, he said.
“Today Punjab and Punjabiat is faced with a serious challenge and every Punjabi is feeling scared and apprehensive of the future as Badal has completely failed them as a custodian of their interests”, Rana said in a statement issued here today.
Asserting that Badal should take up the blame on himself, the Congress legislator asked as why his government did not take any action when the Guru Granth Sahab went missing from a Gurdwara over four months ago. “Badal took it so lightly and today Punjab is facing the repercussions with every Punjabi, particularly the youth angry against him”, he remarked.
The Kapurthala MLA asked Badal that in order to hide one mistake he was committing many more. He pointed out, how two baptised youth were being suspiciously implicated in the sacrilege case as the local villagers and an Australian citizen, with whom the accused were alleged to have talked to, had called the government’s bluff. “No Sikh is going to tolerate your lies anymore”, he warned.
Rana asked Badal to think for himself as why every Sikh, besides the Sikh institutions like the SGPC and the Akal Takhat had virtually revolted against him. “Earlier you used these institutions as personal property and imposed your dictatorial orders on them but now they have rightly started revolting against you”, he told Badal, adding, “you must see the writing on the wall”.
The Congress leader observed that Badal apparently had realised that he had lost the confidence of people and that is the reason that he did not dare to issue an appeal to the people, particularly the youth to call off their protest. “And for all this you are yourself to be blamed as you prioritised your personal interests over the interest of the panth and Punjab”.
