Capt: Badal misusing SGPC funds
Monday, 07/11/2011
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20111107/punjab.htm#3
Putting up a unity show at an impressive Punjab Bachao “rally here today, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh continued his tirade against the Badals.
He alleged that owing to the SAD-BJP governmemnt’s “lack of vision and planning”, core issues like unemployment, poverty and trade and industry had been ignored.
He accused Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of misusing SGPC funds. “It is for the first time in Sikh history that Darbar Sahib accounts are running in a deficit of Rs 24 crore. This is because the Badals have been misusing gurdwara funds,” he alleged.
He said for the past five years the Badals had looted Punjab. “Whether the sand, liquor, transport or cable trade, they have not spared anything.”
He pointed out that the government’s pension and shagun schemes had failed with funds diverted for the CM’s Sangat Darshan programme.
He was unsparing in his criticism of Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal and his brother-in-law Bikram S Majithia. Accusing the CM of being corrupt, the former Chief Minister said his father had left him with 80 acres of land, but the latter now had five-star luxury hotels in Gurgaon worth Rs 2000 crore. Party affairs incharge GS Charak claimed that at the end of the Punjab Bachao rallies, “the entire Punjab would have pronounced its verdict in favour of the Congress”.
Congress Legislative Party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal accused the Badals of having betrayed the Panth. Among others who addressed the rally were OP Soni, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Prof Darbari Lal, Jasbir Singh Dimpa, Harjit Singh Thekedar, Sardul Singh, Lali Majithia and Sukh Sarkaria.
