The Shiromani Akali Dal on Sunday hit back at Punjab Congress chief and Gurdaspur Congress nominee Sunil Jakhar for leveling baseless allegations against the SAD-BJP leadership and said that he has forgotten that it was the Congress party which has betrayed the people of Punjab and not the SAD-BJP alliance.
Coming down heavily on the Congress leader, the SAD secretary and spokesman, Daljit Singh Cheema said that from the allegations Jakhar has proved to be a true Congressman who has chosen to attack SAD leadership just to divert the attention of the people from the debt waiver issue, failure to provide jobs to the youth of Punjab and the overall miserable performance of the Congress government in the last six months.
He said that it appears that Jakhar lives in fool’s paradise and is unaware of spate of incidents of sacrilege occurred during the last six month rule of the Congress Government.
It was gameplan of the Congress party to defame the Sikh community and Congress was instrumental in organising the so called Sarbat Khalsa in Amritsar, he alleged.
Cheema also questioned the Congress leader on why such elements who were up against the SAD-BJP Government were now silent on these issues.
lashing out at Jakhar on the GST issue, Cheema said that perhaps Jakhar is unware that it is for the GST Council to decide on the issue in which Finance Minister of Punjab Manpreeet Singh Badal has badly failed to raise or convince the members of the council.
He also reminded him that the SAD-BJP government had waived of VAT for the Golden Temple and other religious place but the Congress Government of Punjab has again failed to live upto expectations in this field also as it had the power to waive of 50 percent of the GST of its quota.