Senior Akali leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, on Monday, recommended a President’s Police Medal for Assistant Sub Inspectors of the Punjab Police, Jasbir Singh and Hira Singh for their “act of exceptional and exemplary courage and selfless devotion to duty ” on the precincts of Shri Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar, on December 4 when an assassination attempt was made on his life.
In a message, the Chief Minister said that for centuries Jathedar Takht Sahib had been a supreme temporal authority of Sikhs.
Balbir Sidhu, Raj Kumar Verka, and Gurpreet Kangar joined the party from the BJP, while former legislators Mohinder Kumar Rinwa, Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu, and Hansraj Josan have joined SAD(B)
In a hard-hitting attack on "the blatant attempt by these parties to polarize the harmonious Punjab society," the former chief minister said the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had started the divisive campaign by announcing a Dalit deputy CM if elected to power, triggering a mad race to follow suit. The Congress, which had fallen unthinkingly for the Akali ploy, will pay for its mistake in announcing its CM face on caste lines, he warned.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said Akalis had a history of damaging the interests of Punjab, right from the time of the state’s reorganisation.
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