Jagdish Tytler was "a shameful act" and that it rubbed salt into the wounds of the Sikh community.

Chandigarh April 4

Shiromani Akali Dal president and Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today asked former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh to quit the Congress party if he honestly felt that the clean chit to Jagdish Tytler was "a shameful act" and that it rubbed salt into the wounds of the Sikh community.

"What is he doing in a party responsible for the killing of thousands of innocent Sikhs, then humiliating the community by questioning its loyalty to the country and adding insult to injury by decorating the known killers not just with party tickets but even with cabinet berths. On whose side is Amarinder really – the killers or their victims? He wants to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, and this duplicity of character has always been the hall mark of both his personality and his brand of politics. If there is even iota of sincerity in his hypocritical remarks about Jagdish Tytler, he should express solidarity with the," said Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal in a statement here today.

Reacting to Captain Amarinder Singh's statement yesterday that the clean chit to Jagdish Tytler could not be justified and that the CBI should not have given it, Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal said the former Chief Minster was merely trying to shed crocodile tears to befool the Sikh masses. "This man had enacted the drama of resigning from the Congress party over Operation Blue Star but had no qualms in going back to the same party once they offered him the chairmanship of the PPCC. He quit the SAD over what he had called an unjustified police entry into the Golden Temple in 1986 but later became the Chair-person of the Parliamentary Board of the same Akali faction in 1992, reportedly following a promise from Mr. Arun Nehru that he would be made the Chief Minister of the Akali government to be formed after the elections. That didn't materialize as Congress formed the government under Beant Singh, and Amarinder was back in Congress. And all these years, he has remained in that party despite the fact that he knew what the Sikhs felt about the 1984 massacre against the members of the community. Not even one did he raise his voice against Jagdish Tytler, and others in the Congress party charged with organizing the murder of thousands of innocent Sikhs. He has now even forgotten the Operation Blue star," said the Deputy Chief Minister.

Mr. Badal declared that the case against Tytler and others would be re-opened once the NDA formed the government at the centre after the Lok Sabha poll. He said that SAD struggle to get justice for the innocent victims and punishment to the guilty would continue unabated, despite betrayal of the Sikh cause by men like Paramjit Singh Sarna and Manjit Singh Calcutta.

CALCUTTA, SARNA: WE'RE GLAD THEIR VEIL IS FINALLY OFF: SUKHBIR

Chandigarh April 4

The Shiromani Akali Dal president Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal today ridiculed the so-called Akali leaders like Manjit Singh Calcutta and Paramjit Singh Sarna formally aligning with the Congress party 'whose hands are soaked in the blood of thousands of innocent Sikhs and which had outraged the sanctity of the holiest of the holy Sikh shrines, the Harmandar Sahib through a thoughtless army attack, the Operation Blue star'. He said that it was significant, though ironic, that these "traitors of the Panth" have joined hands with the murderers of the community at a time when the whole country is seething with anger against the clean chit given by the CBI to Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and others.

Mr. Badal, however, said that it was a relief that the hypocrisy of these so-called Akalis stood thoroughly exposed. "The veil is finally off. By their action today, Calcutta and Sarna have merely vindicated our position that they have always been the "B" team of the anti-Sikh Congress party. They have earned the promotion from the "B" team status to that "A" team through consistently traitorous acts against their community. They would always be likened to legendary traitors like Pahara Singh who had stabbed the Sikh armies in the back by siding with the enemy. But the Shiromani Akali Dal is glad that the traitors of the Panth, who had always secretly sided with the Congress against the Sikhs, have finally come out in the open in their true colours" said Mr. Badal in a statement here.

He said that the congress love for traitors was hardly surprising. "Those who betrayed the Sikh history and Sikh cause have always been rewarded with big Jagirs by Delhi depsots. "Even Amarinder's family owes much of its eminence to the betrayal of the Sikhs and the country by siding with the British and exeuting patriots like Sewa Singh Thikriwala. Amarinder is in good company with traitors like Calcutta and Sarna" said Mr. Sukhbir Singh.

Mr. Badal also had a dig at the declaration of "outside support" to the Congress party by Calcutta and Sarna, saying, "It indeed will be an 'outside support' because they have no base inside the community or in Punjab. But they have any conscience, they should reflect seriously why, for all their pains, even the Congress does not want to fully own them and they have been educed to the status of beggars even at the doors of Amarinder Singh.

Mr. Badal said that Amarinder's desperate need for "outside support" from the political scrap also showed that he enjoyed little 'inside support' within his party.

JASJIT IS NATURAL HEIR TO CAPTAIN KANWALJIT’S LEGACY: BADAL

“I am fully alive to my responsibility toward my dearest colleague”


Chandigarh April 4 – The Punjab Chief Minister and patron of Shiromani Akali Dal Mr. Parkash Singh Badal said here today that he and his party were immensely proud of the contribution of Late Captain Kanwaljit Singh and his family to the cause of Punjab, Panth and the party. “We are fully alive to our great responsibility towards his family which I treat as an extension of my own family.”

In a statement here, Mr. Badal said that he fully understood and felt the pain that the members of the bereaved family were going through at this critical stage. “Even I have not fully recovered from the shock of losing our dearest and most dependable colleague. Captain Saab had stood by me during the most difficult periods of my life and he was always a strong pillar of strength to me personally and to the entire Shiromani Akali Dal whenever we faced any crisis. We can never adequately repay our debt to him but I am fully committed to stand by the family in every way. This would only be my humble tribute to the great man to whom I had turned every time I needed support, help and advice,” said the Chief Minister.
Mr. Badal said that he had great personal affection towards Jasjit Singh Bunny who is natural heir to his great father’s legacy. “I feel his pain as a parent. I also understand that he is going through unspeakable stress which no one else can fully realize. I appeal to everyone to understand the deep grief of the family and not try to play with their sentiments. We are all committed to safeguard the dignity of the memory of unmatched colleague.”

With no faith in the cadre, Congress relying on foreign national for campaigning-Harsimrat

Chandigarh, April 4

Mrs. Harsimrat Kaur Badal SAD-BJP candidate from Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency today said that requisitioning the services of Bhutan Prince’s relative Mr. Jigme Wangdi Wangchuck by Raninder for campaigning in Bathinda, shows his lack of confidence in the Congress cadre of his constituency. She said that Raninder seems to be following the tradition of leaderless Congress party that had to import leader from Italy to head more than hundred year old party.

In a statement issued here, Mrs. Badal said that the people of Bathinda should not expect much from the clan of Maharajas as they have not yet reconciled themselves to the democratic setup of the country, even decades after loosing their ‘Empire’. She said that they were in habit of treating public as ‘subjects’ and can not even move in them, what to think of serving them.

Mrs. Badal said that after managed ‘reality show’ of claimed hundred fleet cavalcade crisscrossing in the villages of Bathinda constituency on the first day of campaign, Raninder seemed to have got too much tired and handed over command of his campaign to a Bhutan royal.

Attacking the feudal tendencies of Raninder and Amrinder, Mrs. Badal said that they were still living in fools paradise and falsely hoping that charisma of ex-kings queens and Butan king clan’s campaigning could fetch them some votes. She said that people of Punjab had already seen their true colours and were determined to decimate royal father-son duo from political scene of Punjab. She said that time has come that Raninder should concentrate on his first profession of shooting, which may fetch him some medal in Commonwealth Games.

Mrs. Badal said that she was using her election campaign as an opportunity and tool for indepth study of problems of the area so that she can address these on being elected as an MP. She said that as campaign against female feoticide has received an awe-inspiring response, her next drive would be against drug addiction that was frighteningly widespread among Punjab’s youth besides women empowerment that would remain her focus for future.