Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday maintained that malicious propaganda was being spread and circulated against him by the anti-India forces and fringe groups like the Sikhs for Justice.
Taking strong exception to the same, he appealed to the media to verify and cross check the facts before publishing these, lest the truth becomes casualty.
Capt Amarinder, reacting to the media reports that he was allegedly heckled and shoes, stones and bottles were hurled at him during a function at Fresno in California on Tuesday, said: “Nothing can be far from the truth than such baseless claims.”
He regretted that the media took cognisance of the claims of SFJ without verifying and cross checking the facts.
“Even the video circulated by the SFJ to substantiate its baseless claims nowhere shows that I was heckled or objects were thrown at me,” he pointed, while appealing, “At least take note of the credibility and motives of the person who circulated these rumours”.
“The rumour of hurling of shoes was deliberately spread to overshadow the successful meetings he has been holding with Punjabi NRI community in the US,” he claimed.