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(Balwinder Singh Bhundur says both Sidhu and CM playing politics on the issue)
Chandigarh, May 10 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today held former minister Navjot Sidhu as guilty as chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh in failing to arrest and convict those guilty of the gruesome acts of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and said both the leaders were playing politics on this issue instead of fulfilling their commitment to ensure justice in the case.
In a statement here, senior SAD leader and MP Balwinder Singh Bhundur said it was shocking that after four years in governance Navjot Sidhu was raising the sacrilege issue solely to snatch the chief minister’s chair from Capt Amarinder Singh. “Navjot Sidhu has never done anything in the last four years to secure justice in the sacrilege cases and remained busy in his self styled Indo-Pak friendship initiative. Had he worked as assiduously as he is doing now to bring down Capt Amarinder the sacrilege case would have been solved till now”.
Stating that securing justice for the reprehensible acts of sacrilege was furthest from Sidhu’s mind, Mr Balwinder Bhundur said the Congress leader was holding meetings of ministers and legislators not to discuss the sacrilege case but to turn the Congress leaders against Capt Amarinder Singh. “Sidhu also knows that people will ask him in 2022 as to why he did not do anything to secure justice in the case despite representing the holy city in the Vidhan Sabha and this is why he is raising the issue of sacrilege to escape the wrath of the people”.
The Rajya Sabha mp said if Sidhu was really serious about arresting and convicting the sacrilege accused he would have raised his voice when Capt Amarinder Singh turned the sacrilege investigation into a vendetta exercise against the SAD which gave a reprieve to the guilty. “The Congress government first appointed the chief minister’s close friend Justice (retd) Ranjit Singh to probe the sacrilege case. When the former judged failed to nail the SAD in the case, the government gave this responsibility to its henchman and former IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh. The police officer also probed the case for three years but could not succeed in the Congress party’s game plan to implicate the SAD and its top leadership including former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and former home minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. Lately this conspiracy was also exposed by the high court which rejected the findings of Kunwar Vijay Pratap in the Kotkapura firing case and disbanded the SIT besides passing strictures against the former IG as well as the entire manner in which the latter handed the investigation”.
Stating that now that the slate had been wiped clean by the high court and another SIT had been formed, free and fair investigation should be conducted into the Kotkapura firing case as well as other related cases. “The SIT should be allowed to function in a free and fair manner and should not be forced to proceed against the SAD as per the earlier game plan of chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh”. Mr Bhundur said the SAD also stood for speedy investigation in the case and that the SIT should try its best to complete the probe as speedily as possible and not wait for a passage of six months to submit its report.
