Former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday accused the Congress of colluding with anti-Sikh forces in an attempt to assume control of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and other Sikh institutions.
“During 80 years of my long political stint I have learnt that the Congress party is the biggest enemy of Punjab and Sikhs. You can see the difference by comparing it with the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre. The Congress was trying to grab control of our ‘gurdhams’ by instigating the Sikhs against each other but the Modi-led government fulfilled a long-pending desire of every Sikh to have hassle-free access to the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara,” said Mr. Badal at a rally in Muktsar.
“The Khalsa panth would forever be indebted to Mr. Modi, who took the decision to make the Kartarpur corridor a reality and delivered justice to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots by setting up SIT to reopen the cases,” he said.
Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal said that anti-Sikh forces were trying hard to defame the party and it senior leadership in their desperate attempt to gain control over Sikh institutions including the SGPC.
“The affairs of the SGPC are run by representatives of the Sikh community, not by the 'Badal family' as they put it to misguide the Sikhs. These so-called panthic forces are the B-team of Congress” he said.
