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Badal Dal’s youth wing “Youth Akali Dal” held district level protests in Punjab against Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party

February 1, 2014 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau

Chandigarh, Punjab (February 01, 2014): As per media reports Badal Dal’s youth wing called “Youth Akali Dal (YAD)” workers staged protests at all district headquarters in the state by burning the effigies of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on January 31, 2014 while demanding immediate dismissal of the Congress-led UPA Government.

A press release from the party office located at Chandigarh said “since Rahul Gandhi had confessed that Congress leaders were behind the pogrom aimed against the Sikh community, he was duty-bound to name the leaders involved in the riots.”

The demonstrators demanded that the guilty be expelled from the Congress.

It may be recalled that Rahul Gandhi, vice-president of the Congress party recently said in a TV interview with Arnab Goswami, Editor in Chief of “Times Now” that: “some of the Congress-men were probably involved” in November 1984 massacre of the Sikhs (check for details).

Badal Dal leaders seem to be in mood of making it a poll issue in wake of next Parliamentary elections in India that are expected to be announced in next few weeks.

According to The Tribune (TT): YAD leaders also asked Pradesh Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa to clarify his stand on the confessional statement of Rahul Gandhi and tell the people of the state whether he would side with the murderers or demand exemplary punishment for them.

Amritsar: In Amritsar, scores of Badal Dal workers held a demonstration outside the District Court Complex here. Addressing the agitators, former MP Rajmohinder Singh Majitha, Chief Parliamentary Secretaries Inderbir Singh Bolaria and Amarpal Singh Boni, MLAs Baljit Singh Jalal Usma and Manjit Singh Manna along with other leaders said that Rahul had let the cat out of the bag.

Patiala: In Patiala, Youth Akali Dal (YAD) workers burnt the effigy of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. They demanded an immediate dismissal of the Congress-led UPA Government.

Among others present at the site were Cabinet Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra, Ghanour MLA Harpreet Kaur Mukhmailpur and YAD general secretary Harpal Juneja.

Nawanshehr: In Nawanshahr, YAD activists, led by district president Budh Singh Balakipur and district YAD co-ordinator Tanvir Singh Dhaliwal, protested against the Congress.

Sangrur: In Sangrur, a large number of YAD workers, led by district president Satgur Singh Namol, held a rally outside the district administrative complex here.

Moga: In Moga, senior YAD vice president Barjinder Singh Brar led hundreds of workers in the protest against the Congress.

Ropar: In Ropar, YAD workers’ protest was led by local MLA Dr Daljeet Singh Cheema. They burnt Rahul’s effigy near the mini secretariat.

Fatehgarh Sahib: According to The Tribune (TT): Two warring factions of Youth Akali Dal (YAD) held separate dharnas and burnt the effigy of Rahul Gandhi separately here today. One group was led by Harinder Pal Singh Chandumajra, national secretary of YAD, and the other by Ajay Libra, YAD district president.

The Chandumajra group protested outside the Deputy Commissioner’s Office while Libra held the protest at his petrol pump on GT Road in Sirhind. The police had made elaborate security arrangements as the two groups had clashed at a dharna a few days ago.

Also read:

Dual Face of CM Badal – Demanded SIT for ’84 Sikh Carnage in May 2013 But Now rejects AAP’s efforts for SIT

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Related Topics: Indian National Congress, November 1984, Rahul Gandhi, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal)

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