Book Kejriwal for trying to secure clean chit to AAP leader: Badal

SAD president Sukhbir Badal successful Bathinda connected Saturday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal connected Saturday demanded that a lawsuit beryllium registered against AAP nationalist convener Arvind Kejriwal for “trying to procure a cleanable chit” to enactment legislator Naresh Yadav convicted for committing sacrilege of the Quran.

He alleged that Kejriwal besides "patronised" Yadav by re-nominating him arsenic AAP campaigner from Mehrauli successful the Delhi Assembly elections.

The SAD main besides demanded that Cabinet ministers Harpal Cheema and Harjot Bains should beryllium proceeded against for willfully defending a sacrilege accused from their ain enactment and should beryllium dismissed from the assembly of ministers immediately.

Sukhbir said the condemnation of Naresh Yadav had proved that sacrilege of the beatified “granths” started successful Punjab lone aft the advent of the AAP successful Punjab politics. “We request a Supreme Court oregon High Court monitored probe into the 2015 sacrilege cases and are convinced that the AAP manus successful committing these heinous crimes volition beryllium unmasked,” helium asserted.

Badal simultaneously appealed to some elder Congress leaders, Pargat Singh and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who admitted successful the Vidhan Sabha and extracurricular that the erstwhile Congress authorities did authorities connected the delicate contented of sacrilege and adjacent shielded the accused to travel clean.

“If these 2 leaders are existent Sikhs and basal by the information arsenic claimed by them, they should sanction the Congress leaders who shielded the culprits down the acts of sacrilege. If they bash not bash this, it volition beryllium surmised that they excessively had a manus successful these heinous crimes,” helium said.

The SAD main said it was becoming progressively wide that sacrileges were committed to halt the SAD and harm it politically arsenic it was doing grounds development. He said the Malerkotla sacrilege lawsuit had exposed the AAP manus successful sacrilege cases successful Punjab.

“The full party, from Arvind Kejriwal to elder ministers, tried its champion to prevention Naresh Yadav successful the Quran Shareef sacrilege case. Twelve days earlier Yadav was convicted, the AAP authorities prevailed upon the Deputy Commissioner to constitute to the Sessions Court done the Public Prosecutor that the complainant had withdrawn his ailment and that the lawsuit should beryllium withdrawn. When the tribunal convicted Yadav nevertheless, Kejriwal renominated him arsenic the party’s campaigner from Mehrauli. Can you ever spot specified a party?” helium asked.