After Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi met President Pranab Mukherjee on the situation in Punjab, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday too submitted a memorandum to the President alleging that the Congress is trying to destabilise peace and communal harmony in the State by extending support to extremist elements.
In the memorandum submitted to the President by a delegation-led by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, the party said efforts should be taken to ensure peace was not disturbed in a sensitive border State like Punjab.
The delegation informed the President that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had also played a very dangerous role during his visit to Punjab and had given the encouragement to divisive forces.
It said post Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Punjab, the entire State Congress had teamed up with separatist organisations to organise the November 10 gathering in Tarn Taran.
It said the role of the Congress could also be gauged from the fact that its party leaders also helped in drafting the resolutions of the separatists who organised the gathering.
Badal urged the President to ensure that the Congress was stopped from stoking communal sentiments and using these to help anti national forces that were keen to disturb the peace in Punjab and take it back to the dark era of turmoil.
The delegation included MPs Naresh Gujral, Prem Singh Chandumajra, Balwinder Singh Bhundur and Sher Singh Ghubaya besides DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK and Manjinder Singh Sirsa.