The Punjab Congress President Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday blasted the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for going to the villages of the two victims of police firing under heavy security like Brigadier General Dyer who roamed in Amritsar after imposing curfew subsequent to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
“First of all, it took more than a month for him to visit the families of the victims. Then he went under heavy security as he feared protest by the people. He delayed his visited by about four hours as the people waited for him with black flags in Sarawan village. He should have gone there to seek apology with folded hands for the unprovoked police firing,” said Bajwa.
Bajwa asserted that Sukhbir took this risk as the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is to lead a 21-member delegation to the President Pranab Mukherjee on November 19 seeking high level probe by a sitting Supreme Court judge into police firing at Behbal Kalan and series of incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib that the Badal Government had failed to prevent.
“It is shocking that the Bir of Guru Granth Sahib that was reported missing from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala on June 1 is still to be traced that reflected utter incompetence of the police which is under Sukhbir Badal in his capacity as the Home Minister,” he said.