Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked the SIT, investigating the Kotkapura firing incident, to widen its scope and probe the “hand” of Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the “sacrilege conspiracy” to defame and destabilize the then State Government led by Parkash Singh Badal.
Making the demand, senior Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia also demanded that all the “likely beneficiaries” of the sacrilege conspiracy during the Akali regime be narco-tested to expose their hideous role.
“All the major leaders of Congress and their secret accomplices from AAP must be put through narco tests to get the truth on what role each one of them played in that conspiracy aimed not only destabilizing the then government but also at destroying the age-old trust between the devout Sikh masses and the champions of their interests, the SAD,” he said.
Majithia also expressed “surprise over the brazenness with which the Congress high command has gone about issuing a deadline for the conclusion of the ongoing SIT probe. Whose order is the SIT expected to obey — the High Court’s or Congress high command’s?”
In fact, the Congress leaders have let out the worst kept secret in the State — that even the previous SIT actually obeyed not the High Court but political masters in Chandigarh and Delhi. This is in total defiance of the orders of the High Court that the SIT is not answerable even to the State Government led by Capt Amarinder Singh.”
At the same time, the Akali leaders said that the Congress high command, their state unit, and the State Government have come to believe that only “illegal” arrests of Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal can save their credibility which lies in rags, “but we dare them to defy the law on this and they will see what they will see”.
Majithia, along with senior party leader Daljit Singh Cheema, said that the High Court indictment of Kunwar Vijay Partap for politicizing the whole process and now the orders of the Congress high command to complete the new SIT report within a month clearly reveal that the conspiracy against Akalis and their government that started with the acts of sacrilege at that time is still continuing.
SAD leaders said that Navjot Singh Sidhu had openly admitted that Capt Amarinder had told him about Congress party’s design to purposely drag the probe till the last six months of their tenure in order to create hype and milk the issue in the elections.