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Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday accused the Congress of creating an alliance with separatists for electoral gains, as the politics over the unrest in the border state reached Delhi.
At a press conference ahead of his meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee to demand the Congress’s derecognition as a political outfit, Badal unleashed a no-holds barred attack on the party he called “anti-national”.
The Congress promptly dismissed the charges, calling Badal’s malicious and slanderous campaign a reflection of the Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) frustration and the “congenital obsession” of blaming the Congress for every problem.
“It is natural for Sukhbir and his father to feel frustrated when Rahul Gandhi is hailed and welcomed with open arms across Punjab while going on a padyatra,” Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh said, referring to the party vice-president’s visit earlier this month. Punjab is due to go to the polls in early 2017.
Badal said history was repeating itself in Punjab which had suffered terrorism for 15 years because of the Congress.
War of words breaks out after Badal calls Cong ‘anti-national’ | india | Hindustan Times
At a press conference ahead of his meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee to demand the Congress’s derecognition as a political outfit, Badal unleashed a no-holds barred attack on the party he called “anti-national”.
The Congress promptly dismissed the charges, calling Badal’s malicious and slanderous campaign a reflection of the Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD) frustration and the “congenital obsession” of blaming the Congress for every problem.
“It is natural for Sukhbir and his father to feel frustrated when Rahul Gandhi is hailed and welcomed with open arms across Punjab while going on a padyatra,” Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh said, referring to the party vice-president’s visit earlier this month. Punjab is due to go to the polls in early 2017.
Badal said history was repeating itself in Punjab which had suffered terrorism for 15 years because of the Congress.
War of words breaks out after Badal calls Cong ‘anti-national’ | india | Hindustan Times
