by Punjabnewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH,
JUNE 26
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Captain Amarinder
Singh today said that the party was in favour of setting up a peace
memorial in memory of all those who lost their lives during the dark
days of terror in Punjab. The party said, setting up a memorial about
Operation Bluestar within the precincts of the Darbar Sahib will defile
it sanctity.
“You
can’t raise a memorial to anybody parallel to the Darbar Sahib and Akal
Takhat Sahib”, he asserted. Besides, he added, the memorial should be
for peace and harmony and not for mistrust and disharmony.
Addressing
a press conference here today, Capt Amarinder appealed to all the
Punjabis in general and the Sikhs in particular to think seriously as
where the Akalis were heading for. He said, it was the issue of the
sanctity of the Holiest Shrine of the Sikhs and no memorials should be
allowed to be raised parallel to it.
Condemning
Mr Badal for facilitating the honouring of Balwant Singh Rajoana, the
assassin of late Beant Singh, he said, it was shameful as how Mr Badal
as Chief Minister had presided over the self proclaimed assassin of
another Chief Minister who laid down his life for peace and harmony in
the state.
The
PCC President said, the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had once
again behaved in a cowardly manner and succumbed to the pressure of the
radicals. He said, had Mr Badal summoned the guts and courage and put
down his foot the memorial would not have come up inside the Darbar
Sahib.
He
pointed out, the Darbar Sahib has been attacked on a number of
occasions earlier also but never were any memorials set up inside. He
said, there are ‘kallughara’ (massacre) memorials at different places in
Punjab but none in the Holy Shrine.
Capt
Amarinder questioned the very assertion of Mr Badal that the memorial
coming up inside the Darbar Sahib will be a memorial to peace. He asked,
“how can it be when you are leaving out thousands of others who laid
down their lives for peace in Punjab”. He said, the memorials cannot be
selective.
He asked, what about 1784 police cops including two DIGs, 7 SPs,12 DSPs and others who were killed while fighting terrorism.
He
pointed out, there were a number of Congress, Akali, BJP and Communist
leaders who were killed by the terrorists. “Does Mr Badal think their
sacrifices were not worth the memory?” he asked, while referring to the
killing of senior Congress leaders like late Beant Singh and others.
He
said, similarly other Congress leaders like Joginder Pal Pandey, Lala
Bhagwan Das, Former Food Supply Minister, Jagat Ram, Former Cabinet
Minister,Brij Bhushan Mehra, Former Speaker, Darshan Singh Kay Pee,
Ex-Minister, V.N. Tiwari, Ex-MP, Satpal Parasar, MLA, Baldev Singh, MLA,
Sudesh Kumar, Satnam Singh Bajwa, Former Minister (Father of Pratap
Singh Bajwa, MP), Sant Singh Gill and others.
Besides, veteran journalist and Lala Jagat Narain and his son Shri Ramesh ji were also killed by the terrorists.
He
said, Mr Badal had even forgotten his own Akali leaders like Sant
Harchand Singh Longowal, Balwant Singh (Ex Minister), Bhai Shaminder
Singh (ex-MP), Dr Rajinder Kaur (ex-MP and daughter of Master Tara
Singh), Harbhajan Singh Sandhu (ex Minister), Bhan Singh Secretary SGPC,
Sher Singh Dhumakheri (President Youth Akali Dal), besides attacks on
Tohra and Talwandi leaving some SGPC members dead.
Besides,
senior BJP Leaders like Shri Hit Abhilashi, President Punjab BJP,
Harbans Lal Khanna (ex-MLA) and Tarsem Singh Kohar (President Bhartiya
Yuva Janata Morcha) were also killed.
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