Congress Deputy leader in the lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday accepted Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal’s challenge to hold a public rally at Bathinda.
“I wish you and your father also were in a position to accept my challenge and come out in public to check your popularity,” he told Sukhbir while pointing out how Akalis were still being chased by the angry mobs and their ministers and leaders getting slapped and thrashed.
Capt Amarinder said: “By holding the rally at Bathinda, the Badals had desperately tried to retrieve their lost confidence but had miserably failed. “You can fool some people sometimes, but not all the people all the times,” he told the Badals.
The former Chief Minister also warned the father-son duo to desist from their “fanatic and venomous anti-Congress” propaganda, which is devoid of any reason or logic and is aimed at only vitiating the atmosphere. “Don’t forget we can hit back faster and harder,” he warned Sukhbir and the senior Badal, adding, “those who live in glass houses should not throw stones”.
“Yes we will hold a public rally at the same venue and it will be bigger than yours where people will come of their own and shall not be imported from Haryana and Rajasthan, and of course, there will be no state-sponsorship and any misuse of government machinery”, he told Sukhbir.