Muktsar : PCC chief Amarinder Singh today lashed out at Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and said that the Badal family was engaged in a war of succession by trampling all principles of democracy. Addressing the party’s political conference at Maghi Mela here, Capt Amarinder Singh targeted Badal and his Deputy Chief Minister son Sukhbir Singh Badal. He also did not spare former Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, senior Badal’s nephew, saying they all had caused financial loss to the state. While referring to Badal’s allegation that he has been nourishing a feeling of vindictiveness towards him (Badal), Capt Amarinder Singh asked, “Why should I have a sense of vindictiveness or vendetta towards him, but certainly I will put him in the dock for all omissions and commissions.” Replying to Badal’s charge that he was threatening his officers, Capt Amarinder Singh remarked, “Why should I threaten them? They are as much my officers as they are yours and they have worked so efficiently with me for five years.” However, he added “but those officers who have victimised my 30,000 Congress workers, I tell them, I don’t nourish any sense of vendetta against them, but I tell them in straightforward words that I will hang them upside down”. Asserting that Badal was running away from his challenge of an open public debate at some neutral forum about the development he has been claiming to have effected in Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh said he (Badal) had nothing to show when it came to public and transparent scrutiny. Having a dig at the Chief Minister’s sangat darshan programmes, the PCC president remarked, “Badal has been acting like a medieval king trying to dole out bounties among his loyal subjects.” Ridiculing the estranged nephew of Badal and former Finance Minister Manpreet, Capt Amarinder Singh said his was no fight for principles. “It is simply a war of succession. Manpreet knew that he had no future in the Akali Dal after Parkash Singh Badal passes on the baton to Sukhbir.” “Manpreet is now simply trying to search space for himself,” Capt Amarinder remarked. He asked Manpreet as to what he did during the four years when he was Finance Minister other than clamouring against the subsidies, while availing of these himself. He asked the Badals as to what had they done for the people of Punjab. Addressing the rally, leader of the opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, said, the Badals’ days were numbered now. She said the Badals only indulged in vendetta against the Congress workers and now they would have to account for each and every sin. Prominent among those present on the occasion included Lal Singh, Avtar Singh Brar, Ripjit Brar, Jeet Mohinder Singh Sidhu, Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, Amarjeet Singh Samra, Sunil Jakhar, Arvind Khanna, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Jagmohan Kang, Mahesh Inder Singh Badal and others.
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