Bajwa joining hands with oppn: Captain

CHANDIGARH: Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday hit back at Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa for joining hands with the opposition in attacking his own party’s government on the sensitive Bargari issue.

Taking on Bajwa for being party to the malicious propaganda unleashed by the opposition parties, Amarinder said the Rajya Sabha MP had behaved in an imbecile manner. “Bajwa has played into the hands of the Akalis, who had been persistently trying to scuttle the Bargari sacrilege probe, as well the Aam Aadmi Party which was desperate to grab at any straw to find its feet in the state, especially in the run-up to bypolls in four assembly constituencies,” he said.

Bajwa had on Tuesday expressed apprehension that Amarinder was getting dictated by some extraneous forces going by the way he had mentioned exoneration of Badal and his son, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, on the issue of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib.

Amarinder, in a statement, has stated that by criticising him and his government, Bajwa had shown a total lack of maturity and political understanding.

Pointing out that in the absence of any constructive issue, the opposition was making groundless allegations against him ahead of every election for the past over two years, the CM said it was unfortunate that a senior Congress leader had chosen to join the attack instead of countering it with facts. HTC