Bathinda, May 08, 2019: Union food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today denounced chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh for initiating a conspiracy to divide Sikhs and denigrate their religious institutions by delivering them to the Congress party and the Gandhi family.
Reacting to the chief minister’s announcement here that he would contest the SGPC elections besides invoking others to join him, Mrs. Harsimrat Badal said “the cat is out of the bag. You are following the age old Gandhi family policy to divide the Sikh community by creating fronts to capture Panthic institutions. Like your predecessors you have also supported anti- panthic elements and now you are calling them in to join the Congress party’s endeavour to take over the SGPC. It is now clear that these anti - panthic elements are part of your B team and you are using them to undermine the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
Stating that Sikhs would never let this conspiracy succeed, Mrs Badal said the community would give its answer on May 19. “The sarkari protesters who are being commanded by the Congress party to work against the SAD by trying to inflame the sentiments of the Sikh community will also get their answer on May 19”.
Mrs. Badal said it was unfortunate that Capt Amarinder had visited Bathinda to spread disharmony in the Sikh community but had forgotten his duties as a chief minister. “It would have been better if the chief minister has seen the plight of farmers and arhatiyas first hand by visiting a Mandi. The grain markets are choked because the Congress government has failed to ensure lifting of food grains. Similarly Capt Amarinder should have visited farm suicide victim families in this constituency who are crying out for help. People expect him to come to the aid of these families by assuring to fulfil his promise to give them compensation of Rs ten Lakh as well as a government job. However instead of doing all this he decided to play with the sentiments of the Sikh community which is already aggrieved with the Congress party for attacking Sri Harmandar Sahib with tanks and mortars and with him for giving a clean chit to 1984 genocide perpetrator Jagdish Tytler”.