Shameful that Sukhbir went like General Dyer in Bargari areas: Bajwa

Chandigarh, November 18: The Punjab Congress President Mr Partap Singh Bajwa today blasted the Deputy Chief Minister Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal for going to the villages of the two victims of police firing, Mr Gurjit Singh and Mr Krishan Bhagwan Singh, under heavy security like Brigadier General R E H Dyer roamed in Amritsar after imposing curfew subsequent to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

“First of all, it took more than a month for him to visit the families of the victims. Then he went under heavy security as he feared protest by the people. He delayed his visited by about four hours as the people waited for him with black flags in Sarawan village. He should have gone there to seek apology with folded hands for the unprovoked police firing”, he added.

Mr Bajwa asserted he took this risk as the Congress vice-president Mr Rahul Gandhi is to lead a 21-member delegation to the President Mr Pranab Mukherjee on November 19 seeking high level probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge into police firing at Behbal Kalan and series of incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib that the Badal government had failed to prevent. It was shocking that the Bir of Guru Granth Sahib that was reported missing from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala on June 1 was still to be traced that reflected utter incompetence of the police which is under Mr Sukhbir Badal in his capacity as the Home Minister.

He said here was a government in which the right hand did not know as to what the left hand was doing. He referred to the apology sought by the Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal, one would not know for what, while his son was threatening people the same day at another place. The father and son should decide the approach to the issues first rather than contradicting each other.

He asked Mr Badal, who is also the Akali Dal Patron, to come out openly as to what haunted him now as it was too well known to all as to how the situation had deteriorated in the state leading to mass outrage the like of which has not been witnessed before in this state during the last several decades. He said he should have the guts to admit his guilt and resign rather than trying to hoodwink the people by posing that he would apologise in case the people held him responsible.

Mr Bajwa said the Shiromani Akali Dal had adopted the motto of Raj Nahin Sewa but it had now turned into Shre-Aam Dhakka Party.