Sect’s revelations exposed anti-sikh face of SAD: Jakhar

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday said that Dera Sacha Sauda’s statement regarding its support to the Sukhbir Singh Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in the 2017 state assembly polls has exposed the nexus between them.

Jakhar said the existence of the nexus which was suspected by people so far has been proven to be true by the Sirsa-based dera’s admission that they voted for Akalis. “It is unfortunate that the SAD which proclaims itself as a Panthic outfit joined hands with the dera just for the sake of political power,” he told reporters here. He was accompanied by cooperation minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.

His statement came a day after the dera’s state committee, in a press conference, termed the Punjab Police’s probe into alleged sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib as a conspiracy of the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government to defame the sect for political mileage.