05-19-2007, 10:01 AM
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<b>Posted on 2006-10-27 under city: Amritsar </b>
<b>Shiromani Akali Dal today alleged that there was a deep rooted 'eve of election' conspiracy by the "unholy nexus between the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and 'the maverick faction leader' Simranjit Singh Mann to disturb the hard earned peace and amity in the state in order to divert people's attention from the abject failures of the present government in the state.
The party held the Chief Minister squarely responsible for sponsoring Congress stooges acting under the separatist cloak to create an ugly and unfortunate situation at Kathunangal yesterday and alleged that the entire plan for that incident had been carried out 'to the finest detail' by the Congress think tank using its well known stooges working in unison with the state police which allowed armed hoodlums to attack the peaceful religious function. </b>
In a statement here, two senior leaders of the party, Secretary General Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and General Secretary Captain Kanwaljit Singh also said that the police was a party to the armed assault on the religious congregation at Kathunangal and demanded an independent probe into reports the that the local police officials actually provided a security umbrella to enable Mann's armed gang to carry out the attack.
In a statement here, mr. Dhindsa and Captain Kanwaljit Singh said that the conspiracy hatched by the Chief Minster and Mr. Mann and his cronies was to vitiate the atmosphere of the state by creating violence at peaceful religious and political functions of the SAD. "What happened at the religious function at Kathunangal yesterday was clearly "conceived, planned and executed" under direct and live supervision by the political cell in the Chief Minister's Office in Chandigarh. The conduct of the police, which allowed armed hoodlums to disrupt and violate the sanctity of a peaceful religious function at Kathunangal, left no one in doubt that the entire operation was being carried out and monitored from official headquarters in the state capital" said Mr. Dhindsa and Captain Kanwaljit Singh.
The SAD leaders also challenged what they called " the Congress puppets and signboard outfits like Mann's" to explain why they never dared to disrupt the stage of the Congress party which they had themselves always described as the number enemy of Punjab and the Panth. "Puppets like Mr. Simranjit Singh Mann displayed shocking moral cowardice and kept silent even when Amarinder Singh's police molested innocent daughters of Punjab in broad daylight or shed the blood of innocent farmers, employees, traders, Dalits and other sections of the Punjabi people. These so called radical elements had only one agenda, and that was to keep the Congress party permanently in power. For this, they can get into violent confrontations with anyone including the highest seat of Sikh religio-political authority, the Akal Takhat, not to speak of the SGPC and the SAD," said Mr. Dhindsa and Captain Singh.
Captain Singh and Mr. Dhindsa said that the Chief Minister had clearly sensed that he was in no position to go to the polls on the governance plank and therefore had conspired to resurrect the old and dangerous Congress strategy of creating a communal divide in the state by sponsoring some so-called radical. The two leaders said that elements like Mr. Simranjit Singh Mann were acting merely to promote the Congress agenda which was to keep the Punjabis divided.<b> "If Mann had even an iota of moral courage and religious conscience, he should tell the community why he always never ever dared to challenge the Congress government although the entire state was in a state of virtual revolt against the Amarinder regime. Does he courage only to confront the well established and elected institutions and organisations of the Sikhs, the like the SGPC and the Akal Takhat?"</b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>Amarinder-Mann nexus operating: alleges Akali dal</b>
<b>Posted on 2006-10-27 under city: Amritsar </b>
<b>Shiromani Akali Dal today alleged that there was a deep rooted 'eve of election' conspiracy by the "unholy nexus between the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and 'the maverick faction leader' Simranjit Singh Mann to disturb the hard earned peace and amity in the state in order to divert people's attention from the abject failures of the present government in the state.
The party held the Chief Minister squarely responsible for sponsoring Congress stooges acting under the separatist cloak to create an ugly and unfortunate situation at Kathunangal yesterday and alleged that the entire plan for that incident had been carried out 'to the finest detail' by the Congress think tank using its well known stooges working in unison with the state police which allowed armed hoodlums to attack the peaceful religious function. </b>
In a statement here, two senior leaders of the party, Secretary General Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and General Secretary Captain Kanwaljit Singh also said that the police was a party to the armed assault on the religious congregation at Kathunangal and demanded an independent probe into reports the that the local police officials actually provided a security umbrella to enable Mann's armed gang to carry out the attack.
In a statement here, mr. Dhindsa and Captain Kanwaljit Singh said that the conspiracy hatched by the Chief Minster and Mr. Mann and his cronies was to vitiate the atmosphere of the state by creating violence at peaceful religious and political functions of the SAD. "What happened at the religious function at Kathunangal yesterday was clearly "conceived, planned and executed" under direct and live supervision by the political cell in the Chief Minister's Office in Chandigarh. The conduct of the police, which allowed armed hoodlums to disrupt and violate the sanctity of a peaceful religious function at Kathunangal, left no one in doubt that the entire operation was being carried out and monitored from official headquarters in the state capital" said Mr. Dhindsa and Captain Kanwaljit Singh.
The SAD leaders also challenged what they called " the Congress puppets and signboard outfits like Mann's" to explain why they never dared to disrupt the stage of the Congress party which they had themselves always described as the number enemy of Punjab and the Panth. "Puppets like Mr. Simranjit Singh Mann displayed shocking moral cowardice and kept silent even when Amarinder Singh's police molested innocent daughters of Punjab in broad daylight or shed the blood of innocent farmers, employees, traders, Dalits and other sections of the Punjabi people. These so called radical elements had only one agenda, and that was to keep the Congress party permanently in power. For this, they can get into violent confrontations with anyone including the highest seat of Sikh religio-political authority, the Akal Takhat, not to speak of the SGPC and the SAD," said Mr. Dhindsa and Captain Singh.
Captain Singh and Mr. Dhindsa said that the Chief Minister had clearly sensed that he was in no position to go to the polls on the governance plank and therefore had conspired to resurrect the old and dangerous Congress strategy of creating a communal divide in the state by sponsoring some so-called radical. The two leaders said that elements like Mr. Simranjit Singh Mann were acting merely to promote the Congress agenda which was to keep the Punjabis divided.<b> "If Mann had even an iota of moral courage and religious conscience, he should tell the community why he always never ever dared to challenge the Congress government although the entire state was in a state of virtual revolt against the Amarinder regime. Does he courage only to confront the well established and elected institutions and organisations of the Sikhs, the like the SGPC and the Akal Takhat?"</b>
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