Both Congress and AAP politicized the issue of sacrilege for their political ambitions – Parambans Romana
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, July 15, 2025 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asserted both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were politicizing the sensitive issue of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib for their political ambitions even as it asked leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa to tell why the erstwhile Congress government did nothing to either probe or punish the perpetrators responsible for this heinous crime.
Reacting to Partap Bajwa’s statement in the Vidhan Sabha in which the former claimed that the AAP government had failed to charge sheet both former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal in the cases of sacrilege of 2015, SAD vice president Parambans Singh Romana condemned Bajwa for showing double standards on this sensitive issue.
Reminding Bajwa that he had held protests along with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and demanded the sacrilege case be transferred to the CBI in a memorandum to the President, Parambans Romana said “Bajwa however changed colours once the Congress formed the government in the State in 2017”.
He said Bajwa remained a mute spectator when the Congress government got the sacrilege cases transferred back to the State from the CBI and did not conduct any investigation on the basis of law or facts. The SAD leader said just like the AAP government now, the erstwhile Congress government also held special sessions of the Vidhan Sabha with the sole purpose of doing politics on this issue.
Speaking about the SAD, Mr Romana said then chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had transferred the sacrilege cases to the CBI in the interest of justice. He said the conduct of both the Congress and AAP governments revealed that they did not want any justice in the sacrilege cases. He also exposed Bajwa for praising AAP suspended legislator Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh.
“It is a matter of record that the Punjab and Haryana high court snubbed the investigation carried out by Kunwar Vijay in his role as a police officer and held that it was a dangerous cocktail of politics, religion and police administration”.
He said following this observation Kunwar Vijay quit the police force and joined the Aam Aadmi Party.The Akali leader also asserted that the Congress party was least qualified to speak on the issue of sacrilege.
“This is the party which attacked Sri Darbar Sahib with tanks and mortars and destroyed Sri Akal Takht Sahib”. He said the Congress was also responsible for the massacre of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi and other parts of the country.
Romana said similarly AAP legislator Naresh Yadav had been convicted for being responsible for the sacrilege of the holy Koran in Malerkotla. He said instead of showing Yadav the door, AAP had rewarded him with a party ticket in the recent Vidhan Sabha elections.
“The AAP government in Punjab has also done nothing to punish the sacrilege perpetrators and has been busy politicizing this issue”.The SAD leader said instead of playing politics on sacrilege, both the Congress and AAP should focus on the problems of Punjabis and alleviate them. EOM