DW BUREAU / chandigarh The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday took serious umbrage to chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh deputing an officer to keep the Punjab Youth Congress informed on the Bargari case investigation and asked him to tell Punjabis if he had given these directions because it was a political issue and the Congress party wanted to keep playing politics on it. In a statement here, SAD Spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said the Bargari sacrilege case was a serious case which concerned the sentiments of the Sikh community and the chief minister should not politicise it by issuing official press releases deputing officers to keep the Youth Congress informed about the investigation. "It seems after Pradesh Congress President Sunil Jakhar stopped defending Dera supporter Veerpal Kaur who committed blasphemy against the Guru Sahiban, the Punjab Youth Congress had been deputed to take over this task. This shows the deep rooted conspiracy to play politics on the Bargari sacrilege," he added. Asking the chief minister not to play politics on the issue, Dr Cheema asked Capt Amarinder to tell in which capacity he was directing officers to report to the Youth Congress. He said it was shocking that the chief minister had admitted that the CBI was not returning the case files and was still investigating the sacrilege case. "If this is the case then why did the chief minister do drama of solving the sacrilege case and made arrests in the case only to see the accused get bail within one week. This shows the connivance between the Dera and the Congress government due to which the latter helped them secure bail." Dr Cheema asked the chief minister to hold a meeting with the Youth Congress and tell the organisation why he had failed to provide 50 lakh jobs to the youth as promised under the ghar ghar naukari scheme. He said similarly the chief minister should tell why taxis and commercial vehicles were not given under the Apni Gaddi Apna Rozgar and tractors under the Yaari Enterprises scheme. "The CM should also tell if even one youth in the State was given Rs 2,500 per month unemployment allowance as promised," he added. The Punjab police SIT has the mandate to probe three sacrilege cases. The cases are the theft of a ''bir'' (copy) of Guru Granth Sahib from a gurdwara in Faridkot, putting up hand-written sacrilegious posters in Bargari and Burj Jawahar Singh Wala on September 25 and recovery of torn pages of the holy book from Bargari on October 12, 2015 in Faridkot. The sacrilege of religious scriptures had taken place during the previous SAD-BJP regime. The Akali government had handed over the probe to the CBI. Amarinder Singh-led government withdrew these cases from the central investigating agency and gave it to the Punjab police SIT. (editor@dailyworld.in)