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CHANDIGARH, July 7: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today questioned Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s silence over resorting to panthic agenda.
“It does not behove well for someone like you to use someone else for explaining your position”, he told Mr Badal, while referring to the statements being issued by the Akali Dal in his (Mr Badal’s) defence on the issue.
Reiterating his charges that Badal had started to embark on panthic agenda, Capt Amarinder in a statement issued here today, told the Chief Minister that he was deeply mistaken if he thought he could divert the public attention from the real issues they are faced with. “You can befool some people sometimes but not all the people all the times”, he cautioned Badal against resorting to panthic agenda for his own political survival.
“You have already started moving that way and knowing you so well, I am sure, the day will not be too far when you will cry wolf about ‘panth in danger’”, he told Mr Badal, while adding, but nobody was going to buy this deceit as people of Punjab knew it very well that he was trying to divert their attention from the real issues of drugs, unemployment, lawlessness and a sliding economy.
Capt Amarinder observed that he could notice the same old characteristic style and pattern in Mr Badal’s starting the fire by raising emotions and tempers of common masses and then hiding himself in some government guest house on the pretext of being jailed, while leaving people to suffer and die in protests.
“But let me tell you, Punjab has moved far past that era when you could misguide the Punjabis by wailing about ‘panth in danger’ and they would be misled”, he told Mr Badal, while warning, “now they know you and your shenanigans too well”.
