Hailing the passage of the Sikh Gurdwaras (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in the lok Sabha, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Monday said that the AAP-Congress conspiracy to weaken the Sikh community over the Sehajdhari issue by opposing its passage had exposed their joint anti-Sikh and anti-Punjab stance. “Both Houses of the Parliament has righted a wrong by passing this amendment and respected the sentiments of the Sikh community on this sensitive issue,” she said.
Castigating the Congress and AAP for opposing this Bill in the lower house through its MPs Choudhary Santokh Singh, Ravneet Singh Bittu and Bhagwant Singh Maan, she said that the manner in which both parties had collaborated with each other to make a counter strategy against the SAD was reflective of the strategy adopted by them in Bihar.
She said that the very fact that the AAP party had also decided to take an anti-Sikh stand and go against the sentiments of the Sikh community worldwide had exposed it completely.
“Sikhs worldwide will be shocked to know that AAP has sided with the party which sent tanks into the Darbar Sahab and was responsible for the genocide of Sikhs in Delhi. Such behaviour is reprehensible from a party which professes to espouse Sikh causes,” she said.
She added, “It is also a blot on AAP because now it has been proved that this party too like the Congress wants to interfere in the religious affairs of the Sikh community and weaken it for its own selfish political goals. Sikhs will never let this AAP-Congress conspiracy to infiltrate the management of gurdwaras with the support of outside elements succeed.”