Alleging the ruling Congress for unleashing politics of vendetta against Akali workers, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday alleged that three of its workers have been murdered and many others have been criminally assaulted in a short span of two weeks of the Congress’ rule.
Making it clear that it will not take it lying down, the SAD maintained that any onslaught on Akali workers will be opposed tooth and nail by the party.
The assertion came after a detailed meeting of senior party leaders — SAD general secretary Maheshinder Singh Grewal, and former Minister Daljit Singh Cheema — with a battery of lawyers in the party head office.
The two, on the directions of party president Sukhbir Badal, chalked out the strategy to help aggrieved Akali workers.
After detailed review of the circumstances, the SAD leadership noted it with concern that in a short span of two weeks of Congress rule, three SAD workers have been murdered and many others have been criminally assaulted.
Apart from this, several incidents have come to the notice of the party where duly elected bodies being managed by SAD leaders which have yet years to complete their term, are being threatened by the Congress leaders, they alleged.
SAD leaders asserted that they are working overtime to dislodge them by adopting all unfair means including the threats of registrations of false cases. “This is an illegal, unwarranted and undemocratic act of the Congress leaders to demolish the institutions of democratic process,” added Grewal and Cheema.
SAD leaders also discussed at length the process of constitution of panel of lawyers at sub-division, districts and state level to provide best possible legal aid to the suffering Akali workers.