Fabricating voice records, Akalis trying to divert attention from core issues: Capt Amarinder

 CHANDIGARH: Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today rejected the Akali Dal charges of Congress support to the Sarbat Khalsa, saying the party was trying to deflect the public attention as the core issue of desecration and killing of peaceful protestors remain unaddressed.
He also reiterated his charges against the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal over his continued silence, saying, “he has proved himself to be a coward who runs away like a fugitive instead of facing the situation that is of his own making”. “You will do better if you start looking within and recognising and realising as why so many people attended the Sarbat Khalsa, instead of trying to find its origins in 10, Janpath or Moti Bagh Palace”, he told the Akalis, while reacting to their charges that Congress supported it. “And let me tell you, it was hatched in every house across Punjab that has been hit and hurt by your misgovernance, corruption, failure of the agriculture, closure of the industry, drug smuggling, loot of the state, subversion of the SGPC and Akal Takhat authority, the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib, the killing of the peaceful protestors and the framing of innocent youth in false cases”, he said, while taking a jibe at the Akalis for accusing Congress of hatching the conspiracy.