Sukhbir Badal slams AAP; seeks case against Kejriwal for defending MLA Naresh Yadav in sacrilege case

He stated that Yadav’s condemnation demonstrated that sacrilege involving beatified scriptures began successful the authorities lone aft AAP emerged successful Punjab politics

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) main Sukhbir Singh Badal. File

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal contiguous demanded that a lawsuit beryllium registered against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal for attempting to procure a cleanable chit for enactment legislator Naresh Yadav. Yadav was convicted of committing sacrilege against the beatified Quran Sharif, and Badal criticised Kejriwal for patronising him by renominating him arsenic the party’s campaigner from Mehrauli successful the past Delhi Assembly elections.

Addressing a property league here, the SAD president besides demanded that Cabinet ministers Harpal Cheema and Harjot Bains beryllium dealt with for wilfully defending a sacrilege-accused subordinate of their ain party, and that they beryllium removed from the assembly of ministers immediately.

Badal stated that Naresh Yadav’s condemnation demonstrated that sacrilege involving beatified scriptures began successful the authorities lone aft the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) emerged successful Punjab politics. “We request a Supreme Court oregon precocious court‑monitored probe into the 2015 sacrilege incidental and are assured that the AAP’s relation successful these heinous acts volition beryllium unmasked. The SAD volition besides petition the precocious tribunal to name a peculiar justice to analyse each sacrilege cases,” helium asserted.

Addressing the substance further, Badal appealed to elder Congress leaders Pargat Singh and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who had admitted that the erstwhile Congress authorities politicised the delicate contented of sacrilege and adjacent shielded the accused to unafraid a cleanable chit.

“If these 2 leaders are genuinely committed Sikhs and basal by the information arsenic they claim, they should sanction the circumstantial Congress leaders who protected the culprits down the sacrilege acts. If they neglect to bash so, it volition beryllium surmised that they excessively had a manus successful these heinous crimes.”

The SAD president stated that it was becoming progressively wide that sacrilege incidents were being committed to halt SAD and origin it governmental harm arsenic it achieved record-breaking development. He added that the Malerkotla sacrilege lawsuit had exposed the AAP’s engagement successful sacrilege-related incidents successful Punjab.
“The full enactment — from Arvind Kejriwal to elder ministers — tried their champion to prevention Naresh Yadav successful the Koran Shareef sacrilege case. Twelve days earlier Yadav’s conviction, the AAP authorities pressured the DC to urge to the Sessions Court, via the nationalist prosecutor, that the complainant had withdrawn the ailment and the lawsuit beryllium dismissed. When the tribunal convicted Yadav, Kejriwal renominated him arsenic the party’s campaigner from Mehrauli. Can you ever spot specified a party?” helium asserted.

According to the SAD president, his party’s authorities had been probing the 2015 sacrilege cases, but it was stopped erstwhile the Congress demanded their transportation to the CBI.

“Former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal acted successful the involvement of justice, but the Congress politicised the issue. When Congress took bureau successful 2017, it transferred those cases backmost from the CBI but did thing to drawback the culprits, arsenic admitted by Sukhjinder Randhawa. It besides indulged successful authorities by holding a peculiar Vidhan Sabha league connected this issue, thing which the AAP authorities has copied precocious to deflect attraction from its nonaccomplishment alternatively than assuaging the sentiments of the Sikh assemblage by bringing closure to the cases," helium said.