Former Chief Minister and Amritsar MP Capt Amarinder Singh has expressed shock over the happenings inside the Golden Temple here today. He said, the incident could have easily been prevented had both the sides exercised restrain and restricted themselves to the purpose of the meeting and not indulged in publicity hunting.In a statement issued from New Delhi, where he is attending the parliament session, and released here today Capt Amarinder said, as a true Sikh it pained him to watch the images on television that people were pouncing at each other and tossing turbans and that too right at the Akal Takhat.The former Chief Minister expressed surprise as how could people clash with each other when they had gathered for the same purpose to commemorate the army action in Durbar Sahab.
I fail to understand why they clashed with each other when everybody’s purpose there was the same to commemorate the tragic events of 1984”, he observed.However, Capt Amarinder, who had resigned from the parliament in 1984 to protest against the military action, added today’s incidents have only exposed those people that they were not there to commemorate the sad and tragic event in Sikh history but to score political points over each other.He said, it was so strange that the people who had gathered to protest the military action in Durbar Sahib had themselves indulged in something which amounted to nothing less than sacrilege itself. “Unsheathing the swords and tossing each others’ turbans at our holiest place, the Durbar Sahib only amounts to sacrilege for which the culprits must be brought to the book”, he asserted.