Continuing the pressure on the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) over incidents of sacrilege and firing on anti-sacrilege protestors, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday said that no one whose name figured in an ongoing probe into the 2015 cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib will be spared if they were found involved.
Addressing a Congress rally in Lambi, the native village of former Chief Minister (CM) Parkash Singh Badal, Amarinder accused the former CM and SAD leader, Parkash Singh Badal of lying on the incidents of sacrilege in the state during his tenure.
The CM said Badals would have to pay for all their sins, including the sacrilege and false cases as well the deaths of youth due to drugs and of the farmers.
He said SAD-BJP government had not taken any action on the sensitive Bargari, Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura incidents but his government had established the Justice (Retd) Ranjit Singh Commission to expose the truth and had initiated the legal process to take action against the guilty.
Asserting that sacrilege will not be tolerated at any cost, Amarinder said his government would continue to crack down against sacrilege to maintain communal harmony and peace in the state at all costs.
“After the Bargari incident, the Akali Dal leadership has been exposed. The Akalis have lost support of the people,” Amarinder Singh said.
He also came down heavily on the Akalis for the political victimisation unleashed during their rule as evident in the false cases registered by them.
Pointing to the establishment of Justice (Retd) Mehtab Singh Commission by his government, Amarinder said 4451 complaints of false cases had so far been received, of which Commission recommended cancellation of 355 cases.
Amarinder Singh also erstwhile SAD-BJP government for failing to rescue the farmers from their debt burdens, pointing out that his government had launched debt relief scheme for crop loans up to Rs 2 lakhs for 10.25 lakh farmers, of which 337214 had so far been covered with Rs 2179 crore.
All the 10.5 lakh marginal and small farmers would be covered under the farm debt waiver scheme by the end of this year, he said.
Sounding the poll bugle for 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the CM called upon the people to wipe out the SAD from both, the state and the national politics by voting the Congress to power in all the 13 seats in Punjab.
The CM said he had informed the party high command that they did not want or need any alliance in the state.