Sukhbir Badal dared Punjab govt to order inquire into cases of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today dared the Punjab government to ask a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to inquire into all cases of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji in Punjab. He said similarly a sitting judge of the apex court could also inquire into all alleged false cases during the tenure of the SAD-BJP as well as during the last ten months of the Congress government, particularly those in the hometown of Pradesh Congress president Sunil Jakhar. The SAD president also announced that the party’s core committee would take a decision on the next course of action on the issue of fraud played on the farming community by the Congress government on January 12. SAD president said a sitting judge of the Supreme Court could also go into all cases of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji in the state during the tenures of both the SAD-BJP and the present governments. Mr Badal said the present Commission headed by Justice (retd) Ranjit Singh had already been reduced to a cruel joke by the announcement of its findings by both Captain Amarinder Singh and the PPCC Chief, Sunil Jakhar, both of whom have been declaring that the commission will find Akalis guilty of being behind these acts of sacrilege even while the commission is still supposed to be conducting its inquiry. "Any judge with professional pride and dignity of his office would have resigned on seeing his report being so brazenly and preemptively announced by leaders of the ruling party politicians". The SAD president said Capt Amarinder Singh had defrauded the entire farming community. “This is the same man who promised a Rs 90,000 waiver encompassing all loans be it from nationalized and cooperative banks or from private money lenders. Now he has delivered a Rs 167 crore relief which gives an average relief of Rs 35,000 each to 47,000 farmers”. Replying to a question, Mr Badal said the ban on entry of Indian officials to gurdwaras in United Kingdom was unfortunate. He said nobody could stop anyone from paying obeisance at any ‘gurughar’. -PTC News
