Chandigarh:- Aam Aadmi Party today questioned Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on “tacit support” given by ruling Shiromani Akali Dal to Congress party in the fight against Arvind Kejriwal’s outfit.
AAP campaign committee chairman Bhagwant Mann attacked chief minister Badal and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal for allegedly hobnobbing with Congress and for targeting AAP for sacrilege of holy Guru Granth Sahib.
Sukhbir was home minister of state and he was directly involved in the sacrilege incidents, Mann alleged.
“Before accusing AAP, Sukhbir should explain why he didn’t arrest the guilty,” Mann asked.
Mann said that when first incident of sacrilege was committed in Bargari, Sukhbir had blamed “Pakistan’s ISI and German intelligence agency” for the act.
“Sometimes he thinks Russia might be behind the sacrilege.
Lately he realised that AAP was the real culprit, he said, mocking Sukhbir.
He alleged SAD is giving “tacit support” to Congress against AAP candidates.
Mann said that Sukhbir had no stand and no morals and that he had ruthlessly and arrogantly ruled Punjab for 10 years thinking that he would purchase the voters with his “ill-gotten money”.
He accused chief minister Badal of allegedly allowing Sukhbir and revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia to flourish in their “illicit drug trade and illegal mining business”.
He asked Badal why he was silent spectator to the corruption by his family members in the cabinet and other ministers.
“The government was virtually run by Sukhbir and Bikram Majithia and Badal was used as stamp to issue clean chits to the corrupt minister,” Mann alleged.
He said that Badal must explain his compulsions to support Congress candidates on seats where SAD is on weak wicket.
He said that it shows that SAD had lost ground in Punjab and now it wants to pass on power to Congress, its ally in corruption.
He said that SAD and Congress had fought several elections blaming each other as enemy of Punjab and surprisingly both these parties have now joined hands against AAP as fear of the party has exposed their unholy nexus.
Mann said that “blood of Congress party flows in the veins of Badal family”.
“If former MP Navjot Singh Sidhu who worked with BJP for 15 years can claim he is born Congressman then it is birthright of Badal to be loyal to Congress as he had won his first election in 1957 on Congress party ticket,” he said.
Mann said that people of Punjab gave utmost love and respect to Badal and made him chief minister for five terms which is a very rare achievement in life of any politician.
“It is shameful that Badal has cheated people of the state. Unfortunately Badal had fallen from grace at the fag end of his political career,” Mann quipped.
PTI
