The government failed to identify the culprits behind the sacrilege and punish officers responsible for killing of two peaceful protesters. Now it has “fabricated and electronically doctored” the voice records in a crude attempt to put the entire blame on the Congress and trying to deflect public attention, he said.
The Deputy leader of Congress in Lok Sabha was referring to the conversation transcripts played by SAD on Saturday where some party leaders purportedly were in conversation with United Akali Dal leader assuring him to mobilise crowd for the congregation.
The SAD had accused certain Congress leaders of masterminding the ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ on November 10 and asked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to take action against its leaders “for participating and helping in organising the congregation.”
Reiterating his charges against Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal over his continued silence, the Deputy Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha said, “He has proved himself to be a coward who runs away like a fugitive instead of facing the situation that is of his own making.”
“You will do better if you start looking within and recognise and realise as why so many people attended the Sarbat Khalsa instead of trying to find its origins in 10, Janpath or Moti Bagh Palace”, he said in a statement here.
Capt. Singh alleged that ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ may have been hijacked by a handful of radicals, but the huge participation of people was an expression of deep anger against the Badals.
“It was hatched in every house across Punjab hit and hurt by your misgovernance, graft, failure in agriculture, closure of industry, drug smuggling, loot of the state, subversion of the SGPC and Akal Takht authority, desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib, killing of peaceful protestors and framing of innocent youth in false cases,” he said.
The ex-Punjab Chief Minister said, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had virtually “abandoned his authority and responsibility” as the head of the government. PTI