Badal Reiterates Highest Respect For Judiciary : Seeks Probe Into Sacrilege Incidents By Sitting Sc Judge
Former Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Parkash Singh Badal today asked Justice Ranjit Singh ( Retd) to vindicate the dignity of his profession by recusing himself from the utterly politicized Commission set by “the anti-Sikh anti Punjab Congress party’s government in Punjab” to play with the sentiments of the Sikh masses on the pretext of inquiring into incidents of sacrilege of Shri Guru Granth Sahib.” “I request you not to be a party to the anti Sikh agenda of the Congress party and the government formed by it in Punjab. I request you instead to uphold the dignity of the judiciary and to stand by the Sikh quom and recuse yourself from the Chairmanship of the Commission,” said Mr Badal in his reply to a notice received from the commission, adding ,” We oppose the attempts of the Congress party to misuse the august name of the judiciary to promote its petty anti Punjab and anti-Sikh agenda. . “The express purpose of the Commission is to give a legal cover to the political design of the Congress to cause confusion among the Sikhmasses by falsely blaming the Sikhs organizations and institutions themselves for the most tragic and painful acts of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji Maharaj,” said Mr Badal. He said that the report of the Commission stood prepared even before the constitution of the Commission or at best, immediately after its constitution and the report is merely to be formally signed now. As such, I and my party see no reason to be a part of this sham exercise,” said Mr Badal in his reply.” In his letter, Mr Badal pointed out to Justice Ranjit Singh ( Retd) that he had “appointed by the government of a party which has its hands soaked in the blood of thousands of innocent Sikhs and who ordered tanks to be rolled into the holiest of the holy shrines of mankind, Sachkhand Sri Harmandar Sahib. In the most tragic and brazen army assault on the Darbar Sahib Complex, hundreds of sacred saroops of Sri Granth Sahib ji Maharaj were not only desecrated but even cruelly destroyed.He however said that he and his party and the Sikh quam have full faith in the judiciary and hold it in the highest esteem. Mr Badal said that he and his party would “most willingly” assist any independent Commission headed by a sitting Hon’ble Judge of the Supreme Court to expose the sinister design behind acts of sacrilege of the Holiest of the Holy Shri Guru Granth Sahib ji Maharaj and also of other places of Worship. The former CM emphatically stated that the truth behind “the deeply painful series of incidents of sacrilege” needed to be exposed and added that the gravity and the sensitivity of the issue demanded that this must not be handled casually and that the momentous task be handled at the highest level through the appointment of a Commission headed by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court. “I urge you also to lend your voice to the voice of the community by rescuing yourself from this commission and supporting the community’s demand that the the matter be probed at the highest level by a sitting judge of the apex court in the country.” Mr Badal said that the Congress party and this governments had always tried to fulfill their anti-Sikh agenda through a gross misuse of its governmental power whenever it is elected to office. That was why, he said, he was requesting the retired Justice Ranjit Singh not to be a part of a politically motivated exercise against the community.
