SAD-BJP Coordination Committee asks Congress to take action against Digvijay Singh
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Coordination Committee on Monday condemned the Congress leader Digvijay Singh for stigmatising Sikhs even as it castigated the Punjab government for mistreating pilgrims repatriated from Sri Hazur Sahib. SAD-BJP also demanding the immediate dismissal of Health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu for miserably failing to handle the COVID-19 crisis.
The Coordination Committee meeting jointly presided over by SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal and BJP State President Ashwani Sharma, also noted that chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh had failed to provide appropriate leadership due to which Punjab had suffered and recorded the highest death ratio in the county.
The Coordination Committee has also asked the centre to give a bonus on the wheat MSP to help farmers in distress besides urging that a central team to dispatched to the State to inquire into the embezzlement of food material sent by the central government.
It also asked the State government to compensate the farmers whose wheat crops had been severely damaged due to inclement weather from the State Disaster Management fund. The speakers took severe umbrage at the manner in which Congressman Digvijay Singh had resorted to a shameful comparison of Sikh pilgrims stranded in Sri Hazur Sahib with a religious congregation of another religion.
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They said that this appeared to be a ploy to stigmatise Sikhs in the same manner as had been done earlier by the Congress party in 1984 by calling them "terrorists" and later in 2012 by terming them as "drug addicts".
-PTC News
