Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
Chandigarh/New Delhi, October 25: The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today called upon the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal and the Deputy Chief Minister Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal to have the guts to own moral responsibility for the police failure to control turmoil in the state as conceded by the appointment of Mr Suresh Arora and the state police chief replacing Mr Sumedh Singh Saini.
He said Mr Sukhbir Badal was also the home minister and Mr Saini was his personal choice. He demanded that Mr Sukhbir Badal must also resign as the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal as the issues involved were multi-layered.
He asserted at the first stage, it was intelligence failure coupled with that of the investigating agencies after the Bir of Guru Granth Sahib was reported missing on June 1 from Burj Jawaharsinghwala village till its torn Angs were found scattered in nearby Bargari village a few days back.
He underscored that the stand of the Congress had now been abundantly vindicated that the entire sordid operation was engineered by the state agencies.
He described the killing of two persons killed in unprovoked police firing during dharna by Sikh protesters at Behbal Kalan against the sacrilege of Granth Sahib as the cold blooded murder.
He said as a cover up, the police framed two Amritdhari brothers from Panjgrain Kalan village while at the same time, trying to establish their foreign links. He said the frame up turned ridiculous as the ‘foreign hands’ themselves came forward to claim that they had sent the money for a different purpose and that too through legal transaction.
Mr Bajwa trashed the Chief Minister for the overall mess that involved the unprecedented denigration of highest Sikh institutions also. He said here was the extreme example as to how he had tried to misuse these institutions for his vested political interests that had led to the stater wide outrage among the Sikhs.
He blamed Mr Badal for vitiating the atmosphere in the state and said he had not right to continue ion power and should resign before further damage was done to this sensitive state.
He pointed out that it was during the regime of Mr Badal that the situation had deteriorated that ultimately up Punjab on fire that continued for more than a decade in which thousands of people lost their lives.
