Congress Deputy leader in lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday alleged that Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, having failed on all fronts, is now trying to divert the people’s attention by “resorting to radical agenda”.
“Realising that the ground has already slipped beneath his feet, Badal is now trying to push for radical and extremist agenda which has the dangerous potential to push Punjab back to the dark days,” charged Capt Amarinder.
“Since you have proved to be a complete failure as a Chief Minister both in terms of economy and administration, you are back to your favourite game of resorting to the radical agenda and playing with people’s emotions at the cost of peace in Punjab,” said Capt Amarinder while referring to Badal’s statement to claim back the artefacts and manuscripts which went missing during the Operation Bluestar in 1984.
The former Chief Minister said that Badal has been Chief Minister thrice since the Operation Bluestar and during this period, there was an NDA Government between 1998 and 2004 of which his party was a part.
“Why did he not raise the issue of the artefacts and manuscripts at that time and why only nowIJ” he asked, adding that it is just because Badal wanted to divert the public attention from his failures and hide behind the extremist agenda.
Badal, a day before, had said that the State Government was making persistent efforts with the Centre to bring back the books, rare manuscripts and other artifacts taken away by the Indian Army from Sikh Reference library in Amritsar during the Operation Blue Star.