Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday slammed the Congress led UPA Government at the centre for deliberately denying the OBC status to the Jat Sikhs of the State.
Talking to reporters here, the Chief Minister said that the Union Government has recently included the Jats of the northern region in the OBC list whereas the Jat Sikhs of Punjab have been denied this status, which reflected the step motherly treatment meted out to State by the Congress Government at
the Centre.
He said that this was another instance of the discrimination with the State, which had been denied its capital, legitimate share in river waters and even Punjabi speaking areas in the past.
Badal said that it was on record that the Union Government has always ignored the matters pertaining to Punjab in general and Sikhs in particular. Training his guns against the Congress, the Chief Minister said that it was pursuing the politics of divide and rule, which was not in the interest of the nation.