Amarinder statements making Sikhs outside Punjab insecure
“Most separatist outfits have been found to be Congress stooges” Sukhbir
“Explain the presence of your right hand men at Khalistan stages:” Sukhbir to Amarinder
Chandigarh July 30 – SAD president Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal said here today that it was a great and tragic irony that Capt Amarinder Singh is talking about the people of his state in terms of “anti-India forces in Punjab at a time when the entire country was standing up to salute our patriotic heroics and sacrifices in defending the national borders against China and Pakistan.
The SAD president scoffed at Captain Singh’s “fake bravado against outfits like SFJ”, saying that history was witness that in the past the origins of all such outfits had been traced to the Congress. “First, you send your right hand men like Ramanjit Singh Sikki on the stages of separatists at the so-callled Sarbat Khallsa at Chabba where Khaistan resolutions are passed, and then you start your shallow-dramatic breast-beating on threats to national unity and
integrity. The people of Punjab especially the Sikhs have seen through your hypocritical games as well as your fake nationalism. The community that you shrewdly and cunningly want to defame as “anti-India” just because they support the SAD has seen these games by you and your party bosses in Delhi in the past and will not be befooled. Nor will be our brave and patriotic Punjabi Hindu brethren. Don’t try to divide two sisterly communities. It is a dangerous game
and has cost the country dear in the past.” Said mr Badal in a rejoinder to Amaridner’s latest statement defending arrests of Sikh youth under UAPA.
The former Deputy CM said that he was surprised that instead of retracting his steps and desisting from creating the anti-national bogey against the Sikhs and disowning the Indira Gandhi narrative which he had suddenly pulled out of archives yesterday, the Punjab Chief Minister Captain has in fact gone one step farther and has suddenly started seeing “ a threat to the country from anti- Indian forces” in Punjab. Does he not realise that the moment he utters the
expression “anti-India forces in Punjab”, he is putting the lives of millions of Sikhs living outside Punjab in serious danger, as had happened in the 1980’s? What image of Punjabis will non-Punjabis form after reading Captain’s opportunistic references to “anti-India forces in Punjab”? Does he even realise that his words run against the national mood in which Sikhs are being seen as martyrs and heroes of Galwan? “
Mr Badal reiterated that Captain Amarinder was deliberately reviving the anti-Sikh Congress slogans of the 1980s in a familiar Congress strategy to divide Punjabis on religious grounds and divert their attention from the abysmal failures of the Congress government over the past almost four years. Having failed to deliver on any of the promises he had made on oath of the sacred Sikh scriptures, Captain is now looking to present himself in some dramatic role as a
champion and defender of the nation. The fact is that he and his Congress party are the biggest enemies of the Sikhs who are the true defenders and champions of the motherland.”
The SAD president said that he had cautioned the CM against the repressive misuse of UAPA by his police. “ What more incentive does his police need before restarting a wave of repression against innocent Sikh youth when the Chief Minister himself is taking about anti-India forces in Punjab.”