Disclose names of all leaders who shielded sacrilege perpetrators: Sukhbir to Cong

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today demanded that the Congress should disclose the names of all its leaders who had shielded the perpetrators of the 2015 sacrileges of Guru Granth Sahib “after comprehensive admission by senior leaders that the party had indulged in politics on this issue for political gains”.

Badal said after the admission by senior leader Pargat Singh in the Vidhan Sabha and former Home Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa in a recent interview, it was incumbent for both leaders and the Congress to come clean and tell why they had indulged in politics on the issue of sacrilege of the living Guru of the Sikh community.

Asserting that the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government were on the same page on the issue, the SAD President said, “Randhawa asserted in his interview that no one is ready to take the sacrilege cases to their logical conclusion. This itself indicts the erstwhile Congress government and is also a reflection on the AAP government which has failed to punish the perpetrators of this ghastly crime even after three and a half years in power.”

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