Chandigarh (Gurpreet) - Shiromani Akali Dal president Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal today came out strongly against “the sacrilege committed by lawless elements at Ajnala trying to use the Holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji as a shield for their selfish motives and by taking the sacred scripture to a mere a police station.”
The SAD president also came down heavily against both the BJP government at the Centre and the AAP govt in Punjab for vitiating the atmosphere in the state and ruining the hard earned atmosphere of peace and communal harmony in the state. “They are out to communally polarize the state,” said Mr Badal after presiding over a meeting of the core committee of his party
The SAD president said that S Parkash Singh Badal led govt gave total peace, communal harmony and massive all round development to the state for full fifteen years, adding that no state can progress without peace and stability and communal harmony “But the achievements of those fifteen years have all been laid waste by two successive govts of Congress and AAP.”
Mr Badal said that “complete anarchy and a fear psychosis pervades the state with murders and gangsterism being the order of the day. This truly is the era of reign of terror actively sponsored by the powers that be in Delhi and Punjab.”
Mr Badal, however, assured the people of the state that as the representative of Panth and Punjab, the SAD will continue safeguard unity of Punjabis, and peace and communal harmony even if we have to make supreme sacrifices for that.
Coming down heavily against the perpetrators of yesterday’s carnage at Ajnala, Mr Badal said, “This is shocking, unbelievable and unforgivable. Never in Sikh history has anyone ever shown such brazen disrespect to the holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji as was done at Ajanala yesterday,”. Mr Badal emphasized the peaceful protests and processions were a democratic right of the people and his party full supports it too. “But the way it is becoming a fashion among some to use our sacred Guru at dharnas, protests or processions to promote their own interests is unforgivable.