KOTKPURA: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today asked chief minister Bhagwant Mann to stop doing dramas in the name of special sessions of the Vidhan Sabha even as he asserted that the erstwhile SAD government had already enacted an anti-sacrilege law in 2016.
Addressing a mammoth rally here along with senior leader Mantar Singh Brar, the SAD president said the anti- sacrilege law passed by the Vidhan Sabha in 2016 stipulated life sentence to anyone committing sacrilege against Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj. “The law is yet to be ratified by the centre.
Instead of indulging in a drama on this sensitive issue, the chief minister should take up this matter with the central government and get it passed”, he asserted.
Asserting that sacrileges had started in Punjab in 2015 after the advent of the Aam Aadmi Party into the State, Mr Sukhbir Badal said “AAP legislator Naresh Yadav was even convicted in a sacrilege case but AAP is yet to tell Punjabis why it defended Yadav and even fielded it’s senior most leaders - Harpal Cheema and Harjot Bains to fight his case”.
Appealing to the people to support the SAD and shun the parties of Delhi who had always discriminated against Punjab, Mr Badal said “Modi ji (Prime minister Narendra Modi), Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal have no concern for you. The SAD however is part and parcel of your family. We have always stood with you. We stand for ‘sewa’ while the parties of Delhi only believe in ruling and looting”.