SAD President S. Sukhbir Singh Badal campaigning at Pakki Tibbi, Katianwali, Kabarwala, Sarawan Bodla, Aspal , raniwala & total of 21 villages under Lambi vidhansabha segment of Bathinda Parliament constituency in favor of Smt Harsimrat Kaur Badal Member parliament From Bathinda on 10th May, 2019. Also seen in the Picture his son Anantvir Singh Badal.
Lambi May 10, 2019: As campaigning for the Lok Sabha poll entered its last week in Punjab , SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal today upped the ante daring the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh to " choose between his community and his party on the grave issue of massacre of thousands of innocent Sikhs by Congress goons in 1984.
" You stand against your community on this question of life and death for the Sikhs is disgraceful. You want to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. It won't work, " said Mr Badal lashing out against Amarinder's "pathetic attempts " to shield Rajiv Gandhi.
In direct posers to the Punjab CM , the Akali supremo said,"Not only every Sikh but the whole world knows and believes that Rajiv Gandhi not only ordered the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 but even justified it with that shameful remark about the Earth trembling after the fall of s big tree. But You claim that both Rajiv and the Congress party are innocent. Are you suggesting that millions of Sikhs who hold Rajiv guilty are either idiots or liars? Are you with the Sikhs or against the Sikhs on the issue of their tragedy ? And Whose side are you on - the murderers or their victims? " asked Mr Badal reacting to Amarinder's defence of the Congress party and of Rajiv Gandhi.
Badal said that was "ridiculous " that on the one hand Amarinder was admitting that almost all the major members of the Rajiv Gandhi coterie were directly involved in the anti Sikh massacre while in the other he gives a clean chit not only to Rajiv but even to the Congress party. . " He has named Sajjan Kumar , HKL Bhagat, Dharam Das Shastri, Lalit Maken and Arjun Das - all not only Rajiv loyalists but also the ones who were handsomely rewarded by the then Prime Minister. And now Sam Pitroda whose statement Captain describes as shocking is no less a Congress figure than the Principal Advisor to Rahul Gandhi. So what else is the Congress party minus it's top leadership," asked Sukhbir
The SAD president threw a barrage of questions directly at Amarinder, " Did your party throw anyone of the leaders named by you as guilty out of the party ? Were they not rewarded with tickets and Cabinet berths in the Union Government? Or have you Personally ever refused to share the high table with any one of them? Or at least now Will you insist that either Pitroda or he (Amarinder) can stay in th Congress ? You will do none of it. "
Badal asked Amarinder to make s choice between his community which suffered the massacre despite innocence and his party that executed the massacre. "But I know you will never do that. You will only utter a few fake ritual words to show your sympathy for your community. The Sikhs don't need your sympathy if you can't be brave and honest enough to stand by them against the party that butchered them."
Commenting on the ongoing Lok Sabha poll , Mr Badal challenged Amarinder to present his governments performance as the main poll issue. Challenging Amarinder to make his two years as CM the central issue in the poll, Mr Badal said," You are running away from issues of governance, development and welfare in Punjab, things that were under your control and were your responsibility. You are beating about the bush, afraid to face people on your performance. "
The SAD president said that every Chief Minister is always happy and proud to seek a verdict on his own government's performance. "You are the only one who is scared of facing the people on the basis of your governance," said Mr Badal addressing different rallies in the Lambi segment of Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency. In all , Mr Badal addressed 20 public gatherings in what has been a "home" to the former Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Parkash Singh Badal.