Rejecting all allegations levelled by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son,Deputy Chief Minister, Sukhbir Badal against the Congress, party's Deputy leader in the lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh said both of them were suffering from congenital obsession of Congress phobia.
“Better change your mantra of anti-Congressism now as people are no longer prepared to buy it,” he told the Badals.
Referring to Sukhbir’s challenge to hold a rally at the same venue, Capt Amarinder told him, “You know it better that holding a rally is no big deal for me and for that I really don’t need to import people from Haryana and force the state officials including the police personnel to attend it. But let us take a spontaneous and direct popularity test among the masses and see who gets flowers and who gets thrashing of his life, if not stoned and lynched,” he said.
The former CM claimed that most of the people at the rally had either been imported from the neighbouring Haryana or they were the State officials. “Moreover, your popularity is at full display in the police stations and detention centres across the state where you have detained thousands of innocent people in apprehension and fear that they might spoil your show by protesting against your excesses and atrocities”, he taunted the Badals.
Taking a dig at Sukhbir’s claims of 25 years rule, he said, not only will the people of Punjab throw out the Akali-BJP government in 2017, but they will also ensure that the modern day ‘mahants’ and ‘massands’ headed by the Chief Mahant, Parkash Singh Badal are thrown out of the SGPC and all other sacred institutions are rid of him.
Amarinder said that no matter how hard the Badals try to deflect the attention from their failures, people of Punjab will not forgive them for what they have done to the State.