Describing as “truthful and courageous” the allegations leveled by BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu against the Punjab Government, Punjab Congress on Monday said that the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal should give clarification on the issue.
The State Congress dared Badal and his deputy son Sukhbir Badal to respond to Sidhu's charges, in which he has alleged that his constituency was being neglected by the Akali Dal Government.Congress spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira said, “If they fail to respond, all charges of Sidhu would be presumed to be true, for which the Badals owe an apology to him as well as people of Punjab.”
“Stinging remarks of Sidhu that the Badal Government willfully ignored development of Amritsar and diverted funds to other cities indicate the Akali Dal's scant respect for Amritsar, which is known as the Mecca of Sikhs,” he said. He added that it was shameful for Badals that they could not spare a meager sum of `four crore for installation of CCTV cameras for security of lakhs of devotees who throng Amritsar. Khaira also rejected the argument put forward by the Chief Minister that the issues raised by Sidhu were internal matter of BJP.