Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
* Punjab Congress to meet the President Mr Pranab Mukherjee tomorrow
Chandigarh, May 19: Reacting strongly to the adverse comments made by her, the Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today said a liar like the Union Food Processing Minister Mrs Harsimrat Kaur Badal had no moral right to question a leader like Mr Rahul Gandhi of unimpeachable character towards whom nobody in the country could raise even a finger going by the selfless service to the nation not only by him but his four generations. On the other hand, the Badal family had used every available opportunity to use government power to promote its business interests, especially since 2007 and in the process had earned the sobriquet of being one of the most corrupt political families in the country.
“Mrs Harsimrat Kaur Badal and her family has amassed so much wealth and own so many companies that she forgot that the Orit Aviation whose staff pushed down a young dalit girl from the speeding bus belonged to her. One must appreciate her selective amnesia. This is not all. She resorted to this blatant lie in the compound of the Parliament when questioned by the media about the molestation and death of this girl. She defiled the very sanctity of the august institution and she has no moral right to continue as a minister or comment against Mr Gandhi”, he said.
Mr Bajwa said the information might have reached her within minutes of the tragedy as the like of this had never been witnessed in Punjab and the bus belonged to her husband, Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal who is the Deputy Chief Minister. Moreover, she herself was a shareholder in that company till 2014.
He said the truth would now come out before the people as the Punjab and Haryana High Court had issued notices to her and her husband on a petition seeking CBI probe in the Arshdeep molestation and death case.
He asserted the news of the molestation and death of Arshdeep might have reached her the same evening as the company belonged to her husband and yet she feigned ignorance about the ownership even the next day. Such a behaviour coming from a Union Minister was highly condemnable and questionable. She lacked moral courage to own up the company. taking a jibe at her, he said now the court proceedings might help her regain her selective memory loss.
Mr Bajwa disclosed that a high level delegation of the Punjab Congress would meet the President Mr Pranab Mukherjee tomorrow evening to seek dismissal of theParkash Singh Badal government as this government had lost the right to rule in view of the state administration having been virtually taken over by the mafia which was dictating every decision and action. There were transport mafia, sand mafia, liquor mafia and the like. Punjab had been turned into a jungle raj where none was safe but the women were the most vulnerable. Moreover, the state was so bankrupt that the situation called for imposition of financial emergency, he added.
