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Congress accuses Akali Dal of doublespeak on Bhullar
Sunday April 14, 2013 06:40:55 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh: The
Congress party in Punjab Sunday termed the ruling Shiromani Akali
Dal's appeal for clemency to Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar "a farce",
and accused it of shedding "crocodile tears" for the 1993 Delhi
bomb blast convict.
"Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Akali Dal president
Sukhbir Badal should clearly spell out their stand on the issue
and also the contradictory approaches they have been adopting so
far," Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira said.
"The demand for clemency to Bhullar by the Akali Dal is nothing
but a farce, shedding crocodile tears and extreme double standards
in politics," Khaira said in a statement.
The core committee of Akali Dal had Saturday described as "deeply
painful, unfortunate and worrying" the rejection by the Supreme
Court of Bhullar's petition for commuting his death sentence to
life imprisonment.
An Akali Dal spokesperson had said the chief minister and the
party chief would meet the president, the prime minister and union
home minister to urge them "to operationalise the post-judicial
mechanism of statesmanship in order to avoid even at this stage
any steps that may pose a threat to peace and communal harmony in
the country in general and Punjab in particular."
Khaira, however, claimed that while defending Director General of
Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini in a case in the Supreme Court in
2009, the Badal government had submitted an affidavit: "Such
hardcore and experienced criminals (Bhullar), who have a
well-organised international support base...is a matter of
concern."
The case pertained to the disappearance of Bhullar's father, uncle
and another youth in 1991 following an attack on Saini with a car
bomb in Chandigarh.
Khaira said the Badal government had hand-picked Saini as Punjab
DGP last year, superseding five senior IPS officers. He added the
government had been defending Saini in various cases despite his
controversial past record in the elimination of youth in Punjab.
Khaira also questioned the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee
(SGPC) president Avtar Singh Makkar for not confronting the
government on the affidavit filed against Bhullar in the apex
court.
"I am amused and surprised how the pleas of Akali Dal, SGPC and
others will have any impact when the Badal government has taken
such a stand against Bhullar in the Supreme Court," Khaira pointed
out.
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