Dont spoil peace of Punjab, Badal tells Congress, AAP
- September 04, 2021
- Updated: 12:57 am
DW BUREAU / CHANDIGARH
The Shiromani Akali Dal today announced a six-day rescheduling in its "Gal Punjab di Lok Lehar" to facilitate an open opportunity for dialogue with the representatives of farmers organizations on the ongoing movement against the anti farmer Black Laws and discuss ways to further intensify the constructive role played by the party in this regard. The Gal Punjab Di campaign will resume on September 11 from Amloh.
Announcing this at a press conference at the party head quarters here this afternoon, SAD president Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal also cautioned the people of Punjab against a "deep rooted conspiracy by anti-Punjab, anti farmer and anti Sikh forces to vitiate the atmosphere of peace and communal harmony and engineer fratricidal bloodshed among Punjabis. He said that these forces were acting at the behest of the central agencies and had the active support of the Congress and AAP."
Badal said that the Congress and the AAP were acting out of sheer frustration over the rousing response of Punjabis to the on-going Lok Lehar started by the SAD.
"They have read the writing on the wall and want to scuttle the impending mandate of the people of Punjab by creating conditions of unrest and instability. All this was being done to create a justification for the imposition of the President's Rule and bring back the era of State repression of the eighties and the nineties in the state.'
He also gave details of how the Congress and AAP had made teams to disrupt SAD functions and even distributed a list of known Congress and AAP supporters who had disrupted SAD events at Samrala, Baghapurana and Moga recently.
Badal appealed to both the Congress and AAP not to spoil the peace of Punjab saying "our aim should be to work towards ensuring the repeal of the three black laws. You should not take any step which comes in the way of this objective", Badal told both parties. He said the BJP was at the back of all these conspiracies as it too wanted to repeat the 1992 scenario and manipulate its way to power through a fake mandate. He said "we are ready to lay down our lives but don't want a return of those black days in which brother was let loose on brother and the peace of the State was completely destroyed taking the State back by decades". The SAD President also announced the formation of a three-member committee of senior SAD leaders to talk to the farmer's organization to reiterate the party's unflinching support to their movement and to eliminate any possibility of misunderstandings between the organizations and the party.
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