The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday asked Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh not to fan communal sentiments in Punjab by playing politics over dead bodies. The party asked the State Congress why it never demanded the dismissal of the erstwhile Congress Government which sent soldiers into the Darbar Sahib besides engineering the anti-Sikh genocide in Delhi. “It is shameful that Amarinder is trying to give a boost to his flagging career by flaring emotions. By doing so, you are following the agenda of anti-national forces who want to destabilise Punjab,” said senior SAD leaders Maheshinder Singh Grewal and Prem Singh Chandumajra.
They said that the Congress MP should have searched his conscience while paying obeisance at the Darbar Sahab to beg forgiveness for the crimes committed against Punjabis by the Congress. It was unfortunate that Amarinder had played to the gallery and used a solemn occasion like paying obeisance at the Golden Temple as a show of strength, they said adding, “Your subsequent statement demanding presidential rule speaks of your frustration as you have been ditched by both the party high command and now even by your own party MlAs.”
They asked Amarinder to self-introspect and tell Punjabis why he was still serving the same family which had sent tanks into the Darbar Sahib. “Why neither the Congress MP nor his party leaders had visited the house of even one of the thousands of people who had been butchered in the ‘parikrama’ of the Darbar Sahib during Operation Bluestar,” they said.