Bhunder quotes book holding Indira, Amarinder responsible for digging SYL
Senior Akali leader Balwinder Singh Bhunder ridiculed Tript Rajinder Bajwa for accusing former Chief Minister Sardar Parkash Singh Badal "on the basis of the book 'Rivers on Fire' which holds Indira Gandhi and Amarinder guilty of digging SYL."
Bhunder was responding to a statement by Tript Bajwa in which the latter had levelled allegations against Parkash Singh Badal on the basis of what Bhunder called "selective and distorted interpretations of a book" by a Chandigarh based journalist Jagtar Singh.
"Typically, Bajwa is distorting even the few excerpts of the book he seems to have read somewhere. I wish he had read the entire book which mentions Indira Gandhi as the digger-in-chief of the SYL and confirms Amarinder Singh handing the spade to her to dig the canal at Kapoori where Parkash Singh Badal and other Akali leaders were being arrested for opposing the same Indira Gandhi and Amarinder Singh," he said.
"If Bajwa had read the whole book, he would also have found in it the proof that the Parkash Singh Badal was the first Chief Minister of the state to challenge both the river water distribution as well as the clause 78 of the Punjab Reorganisation Act 1966 enacted by the Congress-ruled centre which unconstitutionally gave the Government of India the powers to adjudicate on river waters. Can Bajwa deny that what P S Badal was fighting all his life was the anti-Punjab and anti-Sikh deeds of the Congress governments both at the centre and Punjab."
Bhunder asked Bajwa to go back and read the book again "as it clearly mentions the betrayal of Punjab's critical water rights by Darbara Singh who signed away Punjab's water rights when he was asked by Indira Gandhi to choose between river waters for Punjab on the one hand and his CM's chair on the other. Darbara Singh chose his chair and sacrificed Punjab's lifeline. That is what SAD and particularly Sardar Parkash Singh Badal have been fighting against all his life."
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Can Bajwa tell us who is the author of injustice done to Punjab? When Indira Gandhi gave the anti-Punjab award, whose government was there at that time both at the centre and in Punjab? When Darbara Singh signed the death warrant of Punjab's farmers, which governments were there in Delhi and Chandigarh? When Bluestar and anti-Sikh massacre were inflicted on Sikhs, which party was in power?" asked Bhunder.
-PTC News
