Parkash Singh Badal was the chief minister of Punjab when the police firing came about in 2015. (File News18 Photo)
Badal mentioned he himself was in favor of a good investigation in these incidents and added that exemplary punishment must be meted out to these concerned
Days after being named in a cost sheet in the 2015 Kotkapura police firing case, SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal on Monday mentioned the AAP authorities’s transfer to implicate him in a ”false” case was ”extraordinarily immoral and harmful to democracy”.
A Special Investigations Team of Punjab Police probing into the 2015 Kotkapura police firing case filed a cost sheet in a Faridkot court docket final month, naming the-then chief minister Badal, his deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal, the-then Director-General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini and others.
Though a court docket final week allowed his anticipatory bail plea, it dismissed the petition of his son and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.
In an open letter addressed to the individuals of Punjab, nonagenarian Badal mentioned the earlier Congress authorities performed politics for 5 years over ”some unlucky incidents” in the course of the Akali regime and claimed that the AAP dispensation was doing the identical.
In the letter written in Punjabi, Badal mentioned ”some unlucky incidents” came about throughout his tenure as chief minister, in an obvious reference to the 2015 sacrilege instances.
It was a deep conspiracy to disrupt Punjab’s peace and communal concord, he mentioned.
During this episode, two law-and-order associated incidents occurred that had been extraordinarily unlucky, the five-time chief minister mentioned in an obvious reference to the police firings at Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura in Faridkot in 2015.
Badal mentioned he himself was in favor of a good investigation in these incidents and added that exemplary punishment must be meted out to these concerned.
He additionally expressed disappointment that because the departure of his authorities, the Congress regime for the primary 5 years and the AAP dispensation after that constantly performed politics on these points.
The transfer by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s authorities to implicate him in a ”false” case was ”extraordinarily immoral, extraordinarily harmful to democracy and a conspiracy to tarnish the constitutional workplace of the chief minister”, Badal mentioned.
This is the peak of vendetta politics, he alleged.
The former chief minister mentioned he witnessed numerous ups and downs in his 70 years of public service and claimed to have fought ”brutal authorities repression”, spending a significant a part of his life in jails for the rightful calls for of ’Panth’ and Punjabis.
Having fought in opposition to the ”oppression” of governments all his life, Badal mentioned he would proceed to struggle even now, on the age of 95.
Such pressures can by no means bend him, Badal mentioned whereas reposing his belief in the judiciary.
Badal additionally alleged that this case was a ”large conspiracy to weaken” the Shiromani Akali Dal.
The incidents associated to the theft of a ’bir’ copy of the Guru Granth Sahib, handwritten sacrilegious posters and pages of the holy guide being torn at Bargari in Faridkot in 2015.
These instances had triggered protests throughout which two individuals had been killed at Behbal Kalan and some injured at Kotkapura in police firing.
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