Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday questioned Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal over the denial of justice in the sacrilege cases even after four and a half years of their rule in the state.
The PCC president reminded the AAP leaders of the “24-hour deadline” they had set before the elections to resolve the case and punish the guilty. He pointed out that the AAP government is at the fag-end of its rule with just six months of its term left.
He recounted how the AAP government let the Akalis go while targeting senior Congress leaders with fake cases that the Punjab and Haryana High Court later quashed. “You targeted the Congress leaders without reason and let off the Akalis under some hidden understanding,” he reminded the Chief Minister.
“You have now started summoning people to create the impression that you are trying to do justice,” he told the AAP leaders, adding, “The people of Punjab have already understood your intentions of not doing anything.
Warring observed that the AAP government had deliberately put the sacrilege issue into the cold storage and had reopened it now only after the Akal Takhat declared Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ‘Guru Dokhi’.
“We have strong reasons to believe that the AAP government is keen to work out a compromise with the Akalis and is therefore trying to build up pressure on their leadership,” he observed, while adding, “Otherwise, they have no intentions of delivering justice in the sacrilege cases and if they had any such intentions, they would have done it long before, within 24 hours.”