Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday warned that the State could turn into another Kashmir under fascist forces like the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), with Pakistan waiting for just such an opportunity to revive extremism in Punjab.
Capt Amarinder, addressing public rallies in Malout and Muktsar, dismissed SAD’s Badals and AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal as “meesne gappus and thugs’ (cunning liars and thieves) saying that the nexus between the Naxals and Khalistanis in AAP would bring back the dark days of terrorism in Punjab, which lost more than 35,000 lives to extremist violence earlier.
“The rise of communal forces under the Badals, and now extremist threat posed by Kejriwal to Punjab needs to be countered before it can destroy state’s secular fabric,” he said.
Warning the people against being taken in by the lies of ‘chitti topi wale’ Kejriwal and the “corrupt” Badal, Capt Amarinder said that AAP leader had exposed his nefarious designs on Punjab after plunging Delhi into a mega mess, while Parkash Singh Badal had even lied about his age, pretending to be in his early 80s though he was actually a classmate of Muktsar Congress candidate Karan Kaur Brar’s father, who would have been 94 had he been alive.
Referring to the increasing incidents of sacrilege in the state, Capt Amarinder said that anyone found guilty, including Badal himself, would be thrown behind bars and given exemplary punishment.
Asserting that he had no sympathies for anyone resorting to divisive religious politics for their personal gains, the Congress chief ministerial candidate said that he would get the Bargadi and other cases of religious desecration investigated and will ensure that the guilty are brought to book.
He also promised to bring to book Kanwarjit Singh Rozy Barkandi, SAD candidate from Muktsar, who is said to run a sand mafia at Badal’s behest.