The Punjab Congress on Sunday strongly condemned the “vendetta” being pursued against Sant Baljit Singh Daduwal by the “feudal and tyrant” Badals.
“I strongly condemn and castigate the feudal and tyrant Badals for victimising Baljit Singh Daduwal Sant Samaj leader and member of HSGMC, merely because he has the audacity to politically oppose them and is instrumental in the formation of Haryana Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee,” said Congress leader Sukhpal Khaira.
Demanding “immediate unconditional release” of Sant Daduwal and restoration of his human rights and fundamental right of speech and expression, he alleged that the current Opposition of SAD-BJP candidate in just-concluded Talwandi Sabo by-poll is the immediate cause of Sant Daduwal’s witch hunt by the Badals.
“Dictatorial Badals, unable to digest his dissent and opposition, are now misusing state power, particularly the police by digging out old cases and falsely implicating him,” he added.
He said that the police has opened two more old cases of attempt to murder against him pertaining to the years 2009 and 2011.
Urging the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal not to personalise each issue, be it the shoe throwing by an unemployed Vikram Singh or the present Sant Daduwal case, he said that Badal and his arrogant autocrat son Sukhbir Badal are “warned against misusing Punjab police as their private army to settle personal political scores”.