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Chandigarh, December 2: People’s Party of Punjab chief Manpreet Singh Badal today cautioned people in the state against designs of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to raise political heat and passions by adopting policy of confrontation not only against political adversaries but also the people.
“The arrogance with which Sukhbir is repeatedly throwing challenge to the people, the language being used by him and his political posturing are manifestation of his desperation that has the grim potential to raise socio-political tension which is not in the interest of any one at any level. The passions of the people should not be raised for political gains as Punjab has already paid a very heavy price for such politics”, he added.
The PPP chief lambasted the ruling party leaders for creating scare as evident from the speeches of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir at the Gurdaspur Sadhbhavana rally yesterday that amounted to playing with fire. Thousands of people lost their lives due to the politics of opportunism that sparked huge fire which continued for years and the Akali Dal could not escape responsibility for that situation going by the record of that time and speeches of the senior party leaders.
He said the state government now had gone to the extent of muzzling voices of dissent, including of the media as cases being registered against journalists.
Manpreet said no political formation would like to see Punjab burning again but the tragedy was that the attention of the people was being diverted from the real issues by creating scare and resorting to confrontationist approach.
He said seriousness of the state government about tackling real issues could be gauged from the fact that the Zora Singh Commission constituted to go into the issue of sacrilege and the killing of two persons at Behbal Kalan was still to start functioning even after 40 days in the absence of required facilities and infrastructure.
He asserted there was no change in ground situation as none of the issues on which the peasantry and common people had come on the road been settled. It was not without reason that people continue to show black flags to the chief minister, what to talk of heckling of the ministers in the villages, he added.
