The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked Punjab Congress president Partap Bajwa to spare the people of Punjab who wanted peace and communal harmony and not try to incite violence in society.Reacting to an incendiary statement made by Partap Bajwa today, senior SAD leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said if at all the Jallianwala Bagh monster Brig Gen Dwyer was to be compared with anyone it could only be former prime minister Indira Gandhi. He said just as Gen Dwyer had tried to break the spirit of the freedom fighters by opening fire on them, similarly Indira Gandhi had tried to break the spirit of the Sikhs by ordering the army into Darbar Sahab. "The Sikhs have never forgiven both persons and never will".Dr Cheema said it was the SAD which had always risen to the occasion and defended Sikhs rights. He said even today the SAD was performing the same role and ensuring Sikh institutions were not weakened due to Congress inspired conspiracies.
Giving details of Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal's visit to two villages yesterday to meet families of two youth who had met a tragic end recently, Dr Cheema said the visit had been appreciated by both families. He said while at one village around ten to twelve persons tried to create a disturbance, at Niamiwala the entire village came out to greet the Deputy chief minister. Asking Bajwa to look into his acts of omission and commission first rather than playing politics over the recent acts of desecration, Dr Cheema said Bajwa should first tell the people of Punjab why the Congress party shared a Khalistani stage on November 10 at Tarn Taran. He said Bajwa should also answer why he and his party had committed an anti national act by siding with extremists with the sole aim of weakening the SAD.Asking Bajwa to stop playing with the sentiments of the people, Dr Cheema said if at all Rahul Gandhi was to lead any delegation of his party leaders to the President it should be for the sole purpose of apologising for the Congress role in Operation Blue Star and the subsequent Sikh genocide in Delhi. He said it was astonishing that instead of offering a closure to the wounded feelings of the Sikhs, the Congress was playing the old game of encouraging radical elements covertly even as it professed innocence of any wrong doing.