The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday came down heavily on Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for comparing the party with ISIS and terming its leaders “radicals and Khalistanis”.
AAP Punjab convenor Sucha Singh Chhotepur said Sukhbir Badal seemed to have completely lost his mind after seeing massive ground swell in favour of AAP in the State and sensing his imminent defeat in the 2017 Assembly polls.
“Though Sukhbir denies his obsession with us, he talks about nothing else but AAP. He is visibly scared. It shows how AAP is causing relentless nightmares which in turn are giving sleepless nights to Sukhbir,” he said.
The AAP leader said Sukhbir’s attempt to compare his party with ISIS not only exhibited his “impoverished mindset” but also showed how he has been constantly living “in the fear of AAP” which would “soon uproot him and his family’s 10-year corrupt regime” from Punjab.
“AAP is the party of the common man unlike SAD which is run by the Badal family like a private limited company. SAD is all about Parkash Singh Badal, Sukhbir Badal, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Bikram Majithia and Adesh Partap Singh Kairon. Rest of the leaders do not even matter to the Badal family,” he alleged, adding that if Sukhbir was not Parkash Singh Badal’s son, he could not have even been a councillor in a municipal committee.
Chief Minister l lambasts Jakhar, AAP
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday dubbed as “political gimmickry” Congress leader Sunil Jakhar’s proposed agitation on the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue and accused his party of depriving the State of its water by conceiving the controversial project.
Speaking on the sidelines of a Sangat Darshan programme in Garhshankar Assembly segment here, he said he failed to understand why the Congress was protesting over the SYL issue when the party itself had approved of the project in the 1980s.
“Jakhar is now shedding crocodile tears on the issue while forgetting that incumbent Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh had welcomed (the then Prime Minister) Indira Gandhi to lay foundation of this canal in 1980s,” said Mr Badal.
Alleging that the Congress government had planned SYL to rob the waters of State, he said Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had opposed it tooth and nail.
He said the Sangat Darshan was a transparent programme aimed at ensuring the well being of common man and added that he could not be deterred from carrying out this flagship programme of SAD-BJP alliance. Mr Badal also slammed the Aam Aadmi Party leadership for “misleading” the people of Punjab on emotive issues, as he termed the Arvind Kejriwal-led party as “a flock of enemies of State in the garb of ‘am aadmi’ (common man)”. - PTI
“Sukhbir is living in fear of AAP, which would soon uproot him and his family’s corrupt regime”
