Badal’s hands are stained with Sant Longowal’s blood: Amarinder

CHANDIGARH, August 20: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today ridiculed the “crocodile tears” being shed by the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal over the martyrdom of Sant Harchand Singh Longowal.

“Shedding crocodile tears now is not going to wash your sins and the blood off your hands”, he told Mr Badal while holding him responsible for Sant Longowal’s assassination.

“Badal’s hands are stained with Sant Ji’s blood as he betrayed him and backed out of the Rajiv-Longowal Accord that eventually led to his assassination”, Capt Amarinder said, while rejecting Mr Badal’s allegation during a function today that Congress was to be blamed for Sant Longowal’s assassination.

“Either you have lost your conscience or you have lost your memory as otherwise you wouldn’t be blaming others for the crime, you very well know, you are yourself guilty of”, the PCC president told Mr Badal, while asking him, “didn’t you reject the Rajiv-Longowal Accord and didn’t you raise the emotions and provoke people that led to Sant Ji’s martyrdom”.

Capt Amarinder challenged Mr Badal to deny that he did not reject the accord. “Otherwise apologise to the Punjabis for betraying the Sant Ji and being responsible for his martyrdom”, he told the Chief Minister.

The PCC president said, Mr Badal pushed Sant Longowal towards signing the accord and later backed out at the last moment. “Not only did you back out, you opposed it so vehemently and maliciously and exploited the sentiments of people and provoked them to the extent that the Sant Ji had to pay with his life”, he reminded Mr Badal.