The Dal Khalsa today lashed out at Punjab Governor and Chief Minister for granting pardon to four convicted cops responsible for killing a Sikh youth Harjeet Singh in fake encounter. The organization hits out at Indian political system terming the move as yet another glaring example of blatant discrimination against the Sikhs.
In a clear instance of endorsing Indian state’s policy of impunity for human rights abuser cops, the Governor of Punjab reportedly pardoned four police official who were convicted for murdering a Sikh youth in October 1993.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali) general secretary and spokesperson Karnail Singh Peer Mohmmad yesterday criticised SAD (Badal) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal for allegedly attempting to befool the people of Punjab psodeau "GST relief" on Langar.
As SIT in its charge-sheet has blamed former Punjab DGP Sukhbir Singh Badal and ex-DGP Sumedh Saini for their role in planning the beadbi incidents, the Dal Khalsa asked the Punjab government to take both of them in custody to unearth the deeper conspiracy behind the painful events that kept the Punjab on boil for three years.
In a press statement issued by the Punjab Chief Minister Office (CMO) it is said that "[a]fter a brief hiatus into which he was forced by the Election Commission order shifting him out, IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh is back to take forward the SIT probe into the sacrilege cases and the unprovoked incidents of sacrilege & police firing that had rocked Punjab under the SAD-BJP regime".
Dal Khalsa on Saturday (April 6) hits out at Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) for complaining to Election Commission against SIT point man Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh and termed it as an outcome of Sukhbir’s guilt and frustration.
SAD (Badal) announced the names of five candidates for Lok Sabha elections on Monday (April 1). SAD (Badal) contest elections in a pre-poll alliance with the BJP in Punjab. As per the seat sharing arrangement between the two, SAD contests on 10 out of total 13 Lok Sabha seats, while BJP fields its candidates on three.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) president Sukhbir Singh Badal yesterday maintained that his party had never sought support from Sirsa based Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS). He said that it was Dera supporters who supported SAD (B) on their own. He was talking to media persons on the sidelines of a party workers meeting in Jalandhar.
SAD (Badal), led by Badal dynasty, has fielded former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur as its candidate for Lok Sabha elections from the Khadoor Sahib constituency.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Harpal Singh Cheema said here today that the Badals stood exposed when MLA H. S. Phoolka brought a resolution in the Punjab assembly seeking immediate elections to the Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) pending for a pretty long time now.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court is scheduled examine content of CDs supplied by Justice Ranjit Singh (retd) in a criminal complaint against former deputy chief minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal and Bikram Singh Majithia, on Wednesday.
A Ludhiana resident had filed a complaint under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 295 and 34 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) against former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal and former Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal in relation to Saka Behbal Kalan (2015).
Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) has reached an understanding with the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) after a meeting between BJP president Amit Shah and Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal in Delhi on Friday (Feb. 1) night.
SGPC on Saturday felicitated witnesses of 1984 Sikh genocide cases and the lawyers who fought the cases of the genocide to ensure conviction of Sajjan Kumar, at its headquarters, Teja Singh Samundari Hall, here in presence of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) president Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Nearly 30 percent chairs remained empty while the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) president Sukhbir Singh Badal was addressing the gathering of party rank and file of Amritsar city on Thursday.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday (January 2) accused Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) for double speak on the issue of autonomy of the states with in the Indian union.
Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) led by its patron and five times chief minister Parkash Singh Badal lost the election of village Sarpanch from native village of Badals. Polling for village panchayats was held on Sunday (Dec. 30).
Terming the than Indian PM and HM Rajiv Gandhi and P V Narsimha Rao respectively as “main conspirators” in the Nov 1984 massacre, the Dal Khalsa asked the Akali Dal to press upon the Modi dispensation to put both of them on trial in absentia rather than doing lip-service to the cause of justice.
In this statement former IAS Gurtej Singh, Prof Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, Jaspal Singh Sidhu, Sukhdev Singh, both journalists and Gurpreet Singh spokesman Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha (Chandigarh) said: “This act of so-called atonement constitutes fraud on the Sikh psyche committed at the holiest shrine of the Sikh Panth”.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today acquitted SAD (Badal) leader and former SGPC president Jagir Kaur in her daughter Harpreet Kaur’s death case.
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