Punjab Pradesh Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Saturday challenged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to swear before the Akal Takhat that his Government had not ordered the land acquisition for the construction of SYl in 1978.
Capt Amarinder challenged him to deny and dispute what former Haryana Chief Minister Devi lal, who happened to be his close friend, had said in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha about their friendship and its influence towards facilitating the construction of the SYl.
He also condemned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia for behaving like street bullies by threatening each other with post-dated arrest warrants and bringing down the political discourse to such a low level.
Reacting to Badal’s statement that he (Capt Amarinder) was spreading disinformation about the SYl, Capt Amarinder reiterated that it was Badal who had issued the notification for land acquisition for the SYl in 1978 and it was now again the same Badal who had deliberately weakened Punjab’s case in the Supreme Court on SYl for his narrow and petty political interests.
“Mr Badal wants to wriggle out of his decade long failures and now he will make the SC order against Punjab an excuse to resign and I am sure that was the reason his Government weakened State’s case and did not plead it properly”, he said.
Referring to the threats of arrest hurled at each other by the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia in Amritsar, Capt Amarinder said, they had brought down the level of serious political discourse to a petty fight between two street bullies.
Meanwhile, Punjab ClP leader Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday challenged Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to convene special session of the Assembly and substantiate his claim of having amended Section 5 of the Punjab Termination Agreements Act, 2004. He also questioned his denial regarding the first notifications issued by his government in 1978 to acquire land for the Satluj-Yamuna link Canal. Channi was addressing the gathering at workers meeting in Pathankot organised by halka incharge Raman Bhalla.
