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Chandigarh, October 19 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked Amritsar mp Capt Amarinder Singh not to fan communal sentiments in Punjab by playing politics over dead bodies even as it asked the Punjab Congress why it never demanded the dismissal of the erstwhile Congress government which sent soldiers into the Darbar Sahib besides engineering the anti Sikh genocide in Delhi.
In a statement here, senior SAD leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Prem Singh Chandumajra said it was shameful that Amarinder was trying to give a boost to his flagging career by flaring emotions. “By doing so you are following the agenda of anti national forces who want to destabilise Punjab”, they said adding the Congress mp should have searched his conscience while paying obeisance at the Darbar Sahab to beg forgiveness for the crimes committed against Punjabis by the Congress.
The SAD said it was unfortunate that Amarinder had played to the gallery and used a solemn occasion like paying obeisance at the Golden Temple as a show of strength. “You tried to march into the Darbar Sahib like a conquering hero and even advertised your visit but you failed in this objective also with only a rag-tag bunch of Congress legislators coming out in your support. Your subsequent statement demanding presidential rule speaks of your frustration as you have been ditched by both the party high command and now even by your own party mlas”, Mr Grewal and Mr Chandumajra added.
Telling Amarinder to self introspect and tell Punjabis why he was still serving the same family which had sent tanks into the Darbar Sahib, the SAD asked why neither the Congress mp or his party leaders had visited the house of even one of the thousands of people who had been butchered in the ‘parikrama’ of the Darbar Sahib during Operation Blue Star.
The leaders said the truth was that the Congress had no love lost for holy Sikh places or even the sentiments of the Sikh community. They said this was the reason why instead of appealing for peace and communal harmony the party was fanning communal sentiments.
Speaking about the sacrilege incident, the SAD said people had held protests to condemn the same because their religious sentiments had been outraged. The leaders said the government had taken a series of steps to assuage the feelings of the people and that the State was limping back to normal steadily. “We urge the Punjab Congress not to embolden anti national elements who do not want this to happen for obvious reasons. We also request the Congress not to take away attention from catching the culprits behind desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Peace and communal harmony in Punjab is more important than your petty political interests. Please do not play with fire. We will all be singed by it”, Mr Grewal and Mr Chandumajra added.
