SARABJIT’S SISTER DALBIR KAUR JOINS BJP
FAZILKA: Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit Singh who died in a Pakistani jail a few years ago, joined the BJP at the party’s state-level farmers’ rally in Fazilka on Sunday even as inclement weather forced Union home minister Rajnath Singh to skip the event. Rajnath, however, addressed the ‘kisan rally’ via a phone link.
The Kisan cell of the party organised a rally to reach out to farmers — the vital part of the electorate in Punjab — with Rajnath Singh and other senior party leaders scheduled to address the gathering.
The rally, also marking the birthday of BJP’s stalwart leader and former Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee, was not merely marred by thin presence of people following dense fog but also the absence of its key speakers Rajnath Singh and national president of BJP’s Kissan cell Varinder Kumar Mast, whose flight could not take off due to poor visibility in the national capital.
“The visibility was so poor in the region that the state BJP chief and Union minister of state Vijay Sampla could reach Fazilka only in the afternoon,” pointed out a party insider.
Meanwhile, all praise for Modi and BJP leaders, Kaur said,“Had Sarabjeet not been a Dalit, Congress government would have got him back. As and when the Congress moves out of power, it gets disturbed and to re-gain power it starts making fake promises.”