Capt Amarinder Singh criticizes BJP for echoing Jogi's words in Malalerkotla

Capt Amarinder Singh criticizes BJP for echoing Jogi's words in Malalerkotla

Capt Amarinder Singh criticizes BJP for echoing Jogi's words in Malalerkotla

Chandigarh : Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday launched a scathing attack on BJP national and state leaders parroting UP Chief Minister Adityanath Yogi’s provocative statement on Malerkotla, warning that their blatant attempts to drive a communal wedge among the peace-loving Punjabis will backfire on them.

“The BJP leaders are trying to light the bomb of communal hatred in Punjab, which will blow up in their faces,” said Captain Amarinder. Lashing out at BJP leaders for blindly jumping to the defence of the UP CM, Capt Amarinder said, “he, in any case, is hell-bent upon destroying his own state, which is reeling under total lawlessness, communal and caste divisions, and lack of governance, along with insensitive handling of the Covid situation by a government which files criminal cases against those pleading for help to save their loved ones.”

Capt Amarinder Singh criticizes BJP for echoing Jogi's words in Malalerkotla

Capt Amarinder Singh criticizes BJP for echoing Jogi's words in Malalerkotla

Pointing to the BJP’s “gory history” of spreading communal hatred and violence across the country, from Gujarat in 2002 to West Bengal in 2021, the CM said even in the 1984 Delhi riots, he had personally seen complaints filed against 22 BJP supporters, who had fuelled the violence.

In Punjab too, the cases of sacrilege that sought to disturb the state’s peace and harmony took place under the watch of the BJP, which was then in power in alliance with the SAD, he observed. The CM asked BJP leaders not to forget that even in the 1965 war, it was Abdul Hamid who laid down his life in Assal Uttar to save Punjab.

As for Malerkotla, said the CM, it was evident that the BJP leaders do not know that it was the Nawab of Malerkotla, Sher Mohammed Khan, who stood up and opposed the then Governor of Sirhind, who was bricking alive the younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh. — TNS