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SAD to contest ‘false’ cases registered against Akalis
The meeting of the PAC, which was presided over by party patron and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, passed a resolution that SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal would launch the ‘Jabar Virodh Lehar’ from Dear Baba Nanak on July 25.
The political affairs committee (PAC) of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday decided to launch a ‘Jabar Virodhi Lehar’ to raise its voice against the ‘excesses’ being committed against Akali workers by Congressmen.
The committee also warned chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh not to barter away the interests of the state on the SYL canal issue under any circumstances.
The meeting of the PAC, which was presided over by party patron and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, passed a resolution that SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal would launch the ‘Jabar Virodh Lehar’ from Dear Baba Nanak on July 25.
Sukhbir said the party will start a mass movement ‘to force the Congress government to stop its workers from targeting Akalis’.
“We will form committees in all districts to help victims. We are also evolving a system to contest all false cases registered against our workers besides conducting an exercise to evaluate the extent of the false cases,” he said.
On SYL canal, former CM Badal said: “We would like to make it clear to everyone that Punjab does not have any excess water and that there is no question of construction of the SYL canal. This will not be allowed under any circumstances”. The PAC passed a resolution warning Captain not to agree to any negotiation with Haryana which would take away even a drop of water from Punjab.
Sukhbir said he would personally meet Akali workers to listen to their grievances twice a month in the party office. The first such set of meetings will take place on August 1 and 2 and on August 16 and 17.
It was also decided that a delegation of MPs and senior leaders under the leadership of the SAD president would meet Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and request him that all new taxes imposed under the GST on ‘langar’ purchases by the SGPC and other religious institutions be rolled back.
