The Hindu : BJP hints at action against Punjab Government

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BJP hints at action against Punjab Government

By Our Staff Correspondent

CHANDIGARH JULY 13. Hinting at a possible action against the Congress Government in Punjab, the BJP president, Venkaiah Naidu, said the Centre was closely watching the developments in the State and added a note of caution that the methods adopted by the Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, would not be tolerated for long.

Talking to presspersons after inaugurating the head office of the party's Punjab unit here this morning, Mr. Naidu said that though the BJP had no reservations on proceeding against corruption and the corrupt, Capt. Amarinder Singh had violated all norms to harass political opponents and indulged in brazen vendetta against the Akali and BJP leaders.

Mr. Naidu said Capt. Amarinder Singh had gone back on all the promises made to the people of his State during the elections. "His eyes are set on badla (revenge), badli (transfers) and Badal (the former Chief Minister)," he observed.

Mr. Naidu cautioned that in case the Congress was voted to power at the Centre, it would repeat its Punjab performance all over the country.

He sought to charge the Congress with being responsible for terrorism in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam.

Accusing the Congress of doublespeak, citing the party's demand for a retrial of the Best Bakery carnage case outside Gujarat, he pointed out that the Congress had never sympathised with the cause of the people displaced from Kashmir and those killed in riots in the past in Delhi, Bihar, Meerut, Mumbai and Gujarat.

Listing the various incidents of violence during the Congress regimes, Mr. Naidu said that as many as 5,734 cases were registered between 1985 to 1992 in Gujarat, out of which only 97 cases ended in conviction. In Mumbai, 1,788 people died between 1992 and 1993 but no one was convicted and in Delhi, 2,733 Sikhs were killed after the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, but only eight persons were convicted.

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