Badal writes to PM on R-Day parade row

Chandigarh, The controversy over the exclusion of the Sikh Regiment from the Republic Day parade in Delhi refuses to settle down, with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday describing the episode as “sad and regrettable” in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and saying that the community was “hurt”.

In his letter, Badal said “the absence of the Sikh regiment from the Republic Day parade was sad and regrettable”.
Badal urged the Centre to issue necessary instructions and guidelines “to ensure that the Sikh Regiment is never kept out of the Republic Day parade in future”.
“A widespread feeling of hurt and resentment (has been) caused by the non-inclusion of the Sikh Regiment in the Republic Day parade where French President Francois Hollande was the chief guest,” Badal said in the letter.
According to reports, the Sikh Regiment, which had participated in the parade earlier, was excluded this time.
“The exclusion of the Sikh Regiment from the parade would be regrettable at any time, but it was doubly so this year because of the presence of the French President as a special guest at the event.

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