Sarna comes to Amarinder's rescue, attacks Badal and his aides

JALANDHAR: A day after Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee president Manjit Singh GK questioned Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh's ""silence"" on issues of Operation Blue Star and Sikh genocide of November 1984, SAD (Delhi) resident Paramjit Singh Sarna has come to the rescue of Amarinder and has strongly criticizing SAD (Badal) for "unprecedented onslaught on Sikh values, traditions and thought".
Amarinder has been holding Badals responsible for incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib after which GK raised the question. However on Saturday Sarna reacted with a strong worded statement. "Beware, the Panth is autonomous. No one can monopolise it. Badals and his stooges at the DSGMC and the SGPC are not living in a fool's paradise but an idiot's paradise when they assume they can lord over the Panth," Sarna said.
In a strongly-worded response to DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK's attempts to discredit Captain Amarinder Singh's concerns over recurring incidents of desecration in Punjab, Sarna described the state's governing party SAD(Badal) as "a cluster of sharks who had eaten away economic, cultural and religious resources of the once-prosperous cradle of the Sikh faith". "You have driven the Sikh youth to drugs, liquor stores and barber salons. In connivance with anti-Sikh forces, you have unleashed an ideological war on the core of Sikh spiritual and mundane power Guru Granth Sahib," he said. He recalled that Amarinder quit the Congress to protest against Operation Blue Star when no one in the party could challenge prime minister Indira Gandhi.
"Amarinder also single-handedly initiated the move to terminate inter-state water-sharing agreements as Punjab's chief minister. He moved that bill audaciously in the state assembly despite his association with a national party. That's called an unflinching commitment to Punjab," Sarna argued. "At the same time Parkash Singh Badal betrayed the Sikh community as he clandestinely encouraged the conspiracy behind Operation Blue Star and the bloodshed at Darbar Sahib in June 1984 and then he gradually took total control of Sikh institutions and dropped them onto the lap of anti-Sikh forces," Sarna alleged.