Punjab Congress leader Amarinder Singh has hit back at Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal's claims of evidence that Congress leaders attended a pro-Khalistan rally in Punjab. Amarinder said rally was not an anti-national one and was simply a platform to voice concern over growing disenchantment with the Badal government.
He claimed that Badal was trying to shift the blame for his own failures on Congress.
"We in Congress do not need any lessons on patriotism and nationalism from someone like Sukhbir Badal, whose father and Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal still takes pride in having burnt the copies of the Constitution of India during Khalistan movement," he alleged.
Referring to the 'Sarbat Khalsa', the religious congregation of the Sikhs held at Amritsar recently, Amarinder said, the presence of huge number of people there was an expression of "anger" against the Badal government and not to support Khalistan as being projected by Sukhbir Badal and Khalistan protagonist Simranjit Singh Mann together.
"Does his responsibility finish at blaming the Congress," he asked, adding, he should better own the moral responsibility and resign.
Amarinder claimed Sukhbir is only betraying his frustration and "congenital obsession" of blaming Congress for their own wrongs.
Badal met President Pranab Mukherjee demanding the Congress be called an anti-national party. He said that Congress is responsible for the spread of terror across Punjab.
Claiming that the Congress has taken no action against those leaders, Badal called the party anti-national. Badal accused the Congress party of being responsible for the spread of terror across Punjab because they cannot fight the Akali Dal politically.
(With inputs from PTI)
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