Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday termed the appointment of Kamal Nath by the Congress high command as the leader in-charge of Punjab affairs as “the ultimate insult to Sikhs”.
“This comes on the eve of the visit of Rahul Gandhi to Punjab…It is an unbelievable brazen act of insensitivity towards Sikhs and crass and vulgar disregard of national opinion on the guilty of the massacre of thousands of innocent Sikh children, men and women by Congress goons in November 1984,” said Badal.
He added, “I just cannot believe a political party can be so brutally insensitive to the sentiments of the Sikh community.”
“I am shocked that the Congress high command is going to these heights to rub salt into Sikh wounds while at the same time enacting the drama of putting up a show of Prime Ministerial repentance over its sins…Are these signs of genuine repentance or adding fresh insult to old woundsIJ” asked Badal.
He added, when Rahul Gandhi visits Punjab, this is the first question he would be ask to answer.