Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal on Monday reiterated his party’s decision, taken by its core committee, that it would boycott Punjab Government’s two Commissions of Enquiry — headed by Justice Ranjit Singh and Justice Mehtab Singh Gill — as both the retired judges are “close to Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh”.
Already Sukhbir has denied to cooperate Justice Ranjit Singh panel, set up to probe all the cases of sacrilege, following which the Commission has once again asked the former Deputy Chief Minister-cum-Home
Minister to share information related to sacrilege cases at the earliest.
Sukhbir, while addressing party’s ‘Poll Khol’ rally at lehra Gaga, demanded a probe into the cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court.
SAD chief also lashed out at the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh saying that he had failed to control drugs in Punjab.
He also alleged that the youth was not getting jobs in the State and “all the Government’s claims to have provided jobs to the youth remained only on paper”.
Sukhbir also lashed out at the Congress Government for stopping all social welfare schemes, initiated by the SAD-BJP regime.
Speaking at the rally, SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia alleged that the Congress had started imposing goonda tax on industry.