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Sukhbir demands a case against Arvind Kejriwal for trying to procure a clean chit for party MLA Naresh Yadav in Malerkotla sacrilege case.

PUNJAB NEWS EXPRESS | July 19, 2025 10:10 PM

BATHINDA: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today demanded a case be registered against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Convener Arvind Kejriwal for trying to procure a clean chit for party legislator Naresh Yadav who was convicted for committing sacrilege of the holy Koran Shareef besides patronizing him by renominating him as the party’s candidate from Mehrauli in the last assembly elections from Delhi.

Addressing a press conference here, the SAD president also demanded that cabinet ministers Harpal Cheema and Harjot Bains be proceeded against for willfully defending a sacrilege accused from their own party and should be dismissed from the council of ministers immediately.

In an emotive disclosure, Mr Sukhbir Badal said the conviction of Naresh Yadav had proved that sacrilege of the holy ‘granths’ started in Punjab only after the advent of AAP in Punjab politics. “We demand a Supreme Court or High Court monitored probe into the 2015 sacrilege case and are convinced that the AAP hand in committing these heinous crimes will be unmasked.

The SAD will also represent to the High Court to appoint a special judge to probe all sacrilege cases”, he asserted.
Mr Badal simultaneously appealed to both senior Congress leaders – Pargat Singh and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who admitted in the Vidhan Sabha and outside that the erstwhile Congress government, did politics on the sensitive issue of sacrilege to come clean. “If these two leaders are true Sikhs and stand by the truth as claimed by them then they should name the Congress leaders who did politics on the acts of sacrilege. If they do not do this then it will be surmised that they too had a hand in this”, he asserted.

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