Badal accuses Capt of vendetta politics

Tribune News Service

(Ghanaur) Patiala, May 5

Former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today visited Gurcharan Singh Tohra’s family, who had rejoined the SAD last month, and also addressed a rally in support of party candidate Surjit Singh Rakhra.

He attacked the Congress over Operation Blue Star, “ignoring the state and for its anti-Sikh stand”.

“I still recall when Jawaharlal Nehru became Prime Minister. He opposed the formation of the Punjabi ‘suba’, while Indira Gandhi attacked the Golden Temple,” Badal said. On Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s statement of reinstating IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh after the elections and action against the Akalis, Badal said, “The CM’s stance is ample proof of vendetta politics against us. Earlier too he had got cases registered against me, my wife and son. I am not afraid as the Congress had kept me in jail for 15 years. I am again willing to go to any jail which the Chief Minister names,” he said.

On Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Badal said when Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, it became one of the top growing states in the country and when he became the Prime Minister, the entire world was talking about India.