Even as the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana Kanwar Pal Singh is yet to take any decision on the resignation of AAP’s Dakha MLA HS Phoolka, AAP core committee on Tuesday hailed it as Phoolka’s “sacrifice” in protest against the sacrilege incidents and failure of Congress Government in taking action against the accused named in Justice (retired) Ranjit Singh Commission report.
AAP core group committee noted that it was not easy to make such sacrifice in the interest of justice. The resolution, passed in the meeting, asked the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to take immediate action against the guilty of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib otherwise next generations would not pardon him.
It added the name of Amarinder will be written in black words in the history.
Meanwhile, the Speaker said that no decision has been taken yet on Phoolka’s resignation, as it was being examined. “We have received the resignation of Phoolka and it is being examined,” he said.
Phoolka has resigned as legislator on October 12 expressing unhappiness over the Punjab Government’s alleged “failure” to initiate action against former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and retired DGP Sumedh Singh Saini in sacrilege incidents.
While resigning, Phoolka had said that his resignation would put pressure on the State Government to act on the Commission’s report. As per the report, Badal and Saini were “aware” of the planned police action in Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan to disperse protesters. Two protesters were killed in the police firing. If Phoolka’s resignation is accepted, AAP’s strength in Vidhan Sabha will drop to 19 MLAs, eight of whom have formed a rebel group led by Sukhpal Singh Khaira.