Capt Amarinder lashes out at govt over dance, fireworks at Bathinda during state mourning

5 Dariya News

Chandigarh 02-Dec-2012

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Deputy Chief Minister son Sukhbir Badal for presiding over a music and dance show and fireworks at Bathinda on Saturday when the entire country, including Punjab, was in a state of mourning over the death of the former Prime Minister Mr Inder Kumar Gujaral. In a statement issued here today, Capt Amarinder said, it was an act of extreme impropriety and utter shamelessness when the Chief Minister Badal had himself announced state mourning across Punjab that he not only allowed the show of celebrations, festivities, dance and fireworks, but presided over it. “Was Mr Badal mourning or celebrating the death of the former Prime Minister who happened to be the first Punjabi Prime Minister of the country and a great friend of Punjab?” he asked.He ridiculed Mr Badal’s crocodile tears over Mr Gujaral’s death. He said, on the one hand the Chief Minister was wailing and whining over the loss of the great son of the soil, while at the same time he was gleefully enjoying the dance show and fireworks to mark the inauguration of the Kabbadi tournament that his son has been claiming to be the world cup, which actually it is not.Punjab Congress president said, his party will be complaining to the Punjab Governor about such an impropriety on part of the Punjab government. “The governments do not announce state mourning for the sake of formality which Mr Badal has tried to make it”, he observed, while asserting, “it is out of grief and respect for the departed leader”. But, he added, Mr Badal and his son have actually shown no grief and respect for the departed leader and have rather celebrated it. Capt Amarinder asked, what was the great deal about the dance show of a Bollywood actor? “They could always have waited for the mourning period to pass”, he observed, while remarking, “instead, Mr Badal took a straight flight from the cremation of Mr Gujaral to the celebrations of his son, which is quite unfortunate and unbecoming of a Chief Minister”.