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Congress dharna at Khatkar Kalan demanding Sarari’s dismissal
KHATKAR KALAN (SHAHEED BHAGAT SINGH NAGAR), October 21:
Hundreds of Congress workers led by the Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, and the Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa today staged a protest dharna in front of the memorial of Shaheed Bhagat Singh demanding dismissal and arrest of Minister Fauja Singh Sarari on corruption charges.
Addressing the dharna, Warring said, if the government did not take any action against Sarari, the party would intensify its agitation across the state. He said today’s dharna was only symbolic to serve an ultimatum to the government that it cannot have double standards. “On the one hand Congress leaders are booked and jailed without any evidence and on the other hand the minister against whom there is an open and shut case, was roaming scot-free”, he pointed out.
The PCC president also announced that the Congress party will stage a protest demonstration at Mohali on November 1 to protest against the intimidation and victimization of the Congress workers at the grassroots level.
He exhorted the Congress workers to remain strong, united, and firm in their resolve to fight against the excesses and high-handedness of the Aam Aadmi Party government. “Nothing is permanent here and it is a matter of some time more”, he said, while expressing confidence that the Congress party will bounce back stronger.
Speaking on the occasion, the Leader of the Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa criticized Bhagwant Mann’s double standards on Safari, alleging that he was deliberately protecting him. He said, Sarari incident had completely exposed Mann and warned that the Congress party will not rest till the minister was not removed.
He condemned Arvind Kejriwal for equating Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh with tainted ministers like Satyender Jain and Manish Sisodia. He pointed out, while Shaheed Bhagat Singh had sacrificed his life for the freedom of the country at such a young age, the two tainted ministers with whom Kejriwal was trying to compare the great martyr were neck-deep in corruption.
Bajwa pointed out, Jain and Sisodia were facing serious charges and investigations by the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation with offshore accounts and assets worth crores of rupees. He said it was shameful on part of Kejriwal to compare and equate Shaheed Bhagat Singh with such people. He alleged that they had amassed huge wealth through corruption to fill AAP coffers and it was outrageous to equate such people with Shaheed Bhagat Singh.
He said the Congress party decided not only to pay homage to the great martyr, at his ancestral village but also to remind and warn the AAP leaders that they will not allow any insult to the martyrs like that. Bhagat Singh, he added, did not sacrifice his life for any sect or state but the entire country. He advised AAP leaders to learn to respect the martyrs.
Among those present on the occasion included senior leaders OP Soni, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Dr Amar Singh, Jasbir Dimpa, Barinder Dhillon, Rana Gurjeet Singh, Aruna Chaudhary, Sukhpal Khaira, Hardev Singh Ladi, Pargat Singh, Naresh Puri, Ramanjit Singh Sikki, Kuljit Nagra, Harminder Singh Gill, Pawan Adia, Tarlochan Soond, Darshan Lal Mangupur, Devinder Singh Gabaya, Inderbir Singh Bularia, Gurkirat Kotli, Gurpreet GP, Sukhwinder Kotli, Sukhpal Bhullar, Raja Gill, Jagpal Abulkhurana and others.
