Gurdwara committees express solidarity with Cong

Launching an attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Bansal said its leader L K Advani is like a “rusted household instrument which has no utility”.

His mishandling of Kandhar hijack and the Parliament attack has not been erased from the public memory,Bansal said,adding that the Congress-led UPA is alert enough to nab the Mumbai attack accused alive and pressurise Pakistan into admitting that the terrorist is a Pakistan citizen.

He also assured ex-servicemen that he would look into their demands,which include allotment of space for setting up a permanent office for their meetings and raising their basic pension from Rs 3,500 per month to Rs 5,000 a month.

The committee leaders cautioned the Sikh community against following the Akalis blindly,which they said has started undercutting its own leaders by adopting the BJP’s divisive policy.

They also said that it was unfortunate that the BJP was projecting Narendra Modi as a prospective Prime Minister.

Meanwhile,a cycle rally organised by the Chandigarh unit of Congress Sewa Dal was flagged off by Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee president B B Bahl on Sunday morning.

Covering a selected route of nearly 10 kilometres,the Congress Sewa Dal workers requested the youth to vote for Congress in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.