The Shiromani Akali Dal described the action of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Chief Capt. Amarinder Singh of storming a police station at Dayalpura in Rampura Phul as a political drama aimed at getting sympathy by becoming a martyr in the eyes of the Congress workers of the state and an attempt to save the office of President ship of state Congress Committee.
Reacting to the action of the Congress Chief and subsequent ‘press release’, party Secretary and Spokesman Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema said that Capt. Amarinder Singh must be aware of the facts of the case regarding which he was making such a hue and cry. This case was registered on January 11th this year when Model Code of Conduct was in force in the state due to assembly elections and administrative and police machinery was working as per the directions of the Election Commission of India. The SAD leader further said that Capt. Amarinder Singh must also be aware that keeping in view the merits of the case the District and Sessions Judge Bathinda has already rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of the accused in the present case. He wondered that given the facts of the case how can the Congress President claim that it is a case of political vendetta registered by the SAD-BJP government ?
Dr. Cheema said that everyone in the Punjab knows that the Maharaja of Patiala is unable to digest the humiliating defeat at the hands of the SAD-BJP combine in the assembly elections and now he is resorting to this type of political tamasha at a time when his own party leaders have approached their high command against him and his removal from the post of President is just a matter of time.