SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday mentioned that it was an amazing and tragic irony that Capt Amarinder Singh is speaking in regards to the folks of his state by way of “anti-India” forces in Punjab at a time when the complete nation was standing as much as salute their patriotic heroics and sacrifices in defending the nationwide borders in opposition to China and Pakistan.
In a rejoinder to chief minister’s assertion on UAPA, the SAD president scoffed at Amarinder’s “faux bravado in opposition to outfits like SFJ”, saying that historical past was witness that previously the origins of all such outfits had been traced to the Congress. “First, you ship your proper hand males to the so-called “Sarbat Khalsa” at Chabba the place Khalistan resolutions are handed, and then you definately begin your shallow-dramatic breast-beating on threats to nationwide unity and integrity,” he mentioned.
Sukhbir mentioned that the folks of Punjab, particularly the Sikhs, have seen by way of these hypocritical video games. “The neighborhood that you simply shrewdly and cunningly wish to defame as anti-India simply because they help the SAD has seen these video games by you and your occasion bosses in Delhi up to now and won’t be befooled,” he mentioned.
The previous deputy CM mentioned he was stunned that as a substitute of retracting his steps and desisting from creating the anti-national bogey in opposition to the Sikhs and disowning the Indira Gandhi narrative which he had abruptly pulled out of archives, Captain has gone one step farther and has abruptly began seeing “a risk to the nation from “anti-India forces” in Punjab.
The SAD chief reiterated that Amarinder was intentionally reviving the anti-Sikh Congress slogans of the 1980s in a well-recognized Congress technique to divide Punjabis on non secular grounds and divert their consideration from the abysmal failures of the Congress authorities over the previous virtually 4 years. “Having didn’t ship on any of the guarantees he had made on oath of the sacred Sikh scriptures, Captain is now seeking to current himself in some dramatic position as a champion and defender of the nation,” he added. Sukhbir additionally mentioned that he had cautioned the CM in opposition to the repressive misuse of UAPA by his police.