Sukhbir evading responsibility on Operation Bluestar memorial: Amarinder

Shiromani Akali Dal,had distanced himself from the construction of the memorial at Amritsar.

Ridiculing Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal’s statement that the government had nothing to do with the Operation Bluestar memorial being set up by SGPC in Amritsar,Congress today lashed out at him,accusing him of lying and evading responsibility on the issue.

“If that be the case both Sukhbir and his father should explain their position on the memorial and Balwant Singh Rajoana whom they have declared the ‘Zinda Shaheed — (living martyr),” State Congress President,Amarinder Singh told reporters here.

Amarinder said,it was typical of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to be running with the hare and hunting with the hounds.

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He alleged that Badal Sr’s double standards were exposed as on the one hand he had given his “approval” to setting up the memorial and was maintaining silence on the issue on the other while his son (Sukhbir) was trying to run away from the issue.

“Who does not know that the SGPC and Akal Takht are controlled by the Badals only,” he said,while asking,”is it possible that the SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar will do anything without their (the Badals) knowledge.”

Sukhbir Singh Badal,who is also President of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal,had distanced himself from the construction of the memorial at Amritsar telling reporters here yesterday that the state government had nothing to do with the project.

The Sikh high priests had yesterday bestowed the title of “Zinda Shaheed” at Amritsar on Balwant Singh Rajoana,convicted in the assassination case of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh,on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of Operation Bluestar at the Akal Takht,supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs.

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The memorial is being set up in the memory of those killed at the Golden Temple during Operation Bluestar,a military operation ordered by the Indira Gandhi government to flush out Sikh separatists allegedly using the complex as a

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