Amidst the opposition’s allegations against the ruling Congress for unleashing political terror on its rivals, another Akali leader was attacked on Tuesday. Senior SAD leader and former MlA Gurbachan Singh Babbehali’s son Amarjot Singh Babbehali escaped a murderous attack.
Some unidentified miscreants fired gun shots and attacked Amarjot with sharp edged weapons.
Amarjot, sarpanch of Babbehali village, along with two of his friends were critically injured in the attack and referred to Amritsar’s Guru Nanak Dev Hospital.
The attack is reportedly an outcome rivalry between Amarjot and certain youngsters close to a senior Congress leader of Gurdaspur.
This is the second incident when a son of an Akali leader in Gurdaspur was attacked and injured. last week, Parminder Singh, son of Dyal Singh Kallianwali — a protégé of Badal family was attacked and injured critically.
Only a day before, husband of SAD sarpanch of Mubarakpur Choonghan village near Mandi Gobindgarh was shot dead by car borne miscreants. The murder was allegedly due to personal enmity, and the main accused in the case belongs to the same village.
Babbehali said the incident took place outside their village Babbehali when his son was going out of the village with his friend and some people of the village stopped them and attacked with sharp-edged weapons. The attackers were allegedly said to be associated with the Congress party.
Sukhbir condemns, blames Sidhu’s inflammatory speech for setting tone
Chandigarh: Condemning the brutal attack on former Gurdaspur MlA Gurbachan Singh Babbehali’s son Amarjot, SAD president Sukhbir Badal said political vendetta as well as assassinations of political leaders and religious heads had reached its zenith under the Congress rule.
“Attacks on Akali leaders and their kith and kin are going on unabated with the former legislator’s son Amarjot and two others being stabbed at Babbehali village. A short while back, SGPC member Dyal Singh Kolianwali’s son Parminder was attacked in a similar manner by Congress workers,” said Sukhbir. He said the Congress leaders, particularly local Government Minister Navjot Sidhu, were responsible for provoking Congress leaders to attack Akalis.