Condemning the murderous attack on senior SAD’s Muktsar district president Dyal Singh Kolianwali’s son Parminder Singh Kolianwali allegedly by the Congressmen, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal on Monday said that it was symptomatic of the jungle raj prevailing in Punjab under the Congress rule.
“Incidents of attacks of Akali leaders and workers started right after the establishment of the Congress government and are going on blatantly without any stop. Kolianwali’s son was not given adequate protection despite repeated requests to the State police that his life was under threat,” he said.
Asking the Congress government to display the political will needed to stop the wave of vendetta incidents in the State, Sukhbir said that they had been continuing right since the killing of Akali leader Gurbachan Singh Khalsa immediately after the assembly election in Gurdaspur.
He said that after this, there were numerous killings including those in Khemkaran, Mansa, Ferozepur and Muktsar. “Akali workers were attacked at numerous places. Many were humiliated by being molested and disrobed. False cases are being registered enmass against Akali sarpanches and councillors to make them toe the Congress line,” he said.
Stating that the goondaraj unleashed by the Congress leaders and party workers had even emboldened anti-social and anti-national elements, Sukhbir said that the State had witnessed a number of murders designed to spoil the communal atmosphere.
While Pastor Sultan Masih had been murdered in ludhiana earlier, now RSS leader Ravinder Gosain had also been murdered in ludhiana, he added.