Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh slammed MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on her hypocrisy about commemorating Jallianwala Bagh after she repeatedly alleged the former’s complicity with the Congress over Operation Blue Star.
On the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Singh had accompanied Congress president Rahul Gandhi to the memorial site, to perform a wreath-laying ceremony.
Remembering the martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre on the centenary of the most gruesome incident in Indian history. The sacrifice and valour of the martyrs of this tragedy will never be forgotten by. The nation remains indebted to them. #JallianwalaBaghCentenary pic.twitter.com/Mf6yDAnmLK
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) April 13, 2019
Badal embarked on her twitter feud by accusing the chief minister of duplicity as he was demanding an apology from the British for Jallianwala Bagh massacre, but not from the Congress about Operation Blue Star in 1984 and the killing of Sikhs during that incident.
.@capt_amarinder is seeking apology from British Govt for #JallianwalaBaghMassacre. What about an apology from Gandhis for #OperationBlueStar ?
— Harsimrat Kaur Badal (@HarsimratBadal_) April 13, 2019
She tweeted once more as Singh posted photos on twitter escorting Gandhi to Sri Akal Takht Sahib to pay their respects. She said that the Punjab chief minister lacked “courage” to ask Rahul Gandhi for an apology about Congress’s “sin of demolishing Sikhs’ highest religio-temporal seat with tanks and mortars.”
Pb CM @capt_amarinder took @RahulGandhi to Sri Akal Takht Sahib but lacked courage to ask him admit the @INCIndia‘s sin of demolishing Sikhs’ highest religio-temporal seat with tanks & mortars. What a contrast with demand for British apology for #JallianwalaBaghMassacre !
— Harsimrat Kaur Badal (@HarsimratBadal_) April 13, 2019
Captain Amarinder Singh, in turn, slammed Harsimrat Kaur Badal by returning to the original point of contention — the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. He asked Harsimrat Kaur Badal if her husband MLA Sukhbir Singh Badal or his father Prakash Singh Badal had ever apologised for their ancestor Sardar Sunder Singh Majithia siding with the British during 1919.
Singh alleged Majitha had celebrated the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by throwing a lavish feast for the main perpetrator colonel Reginald Dyer on the same day the massacre took place.
Did you, your husband @officeofssbadal or his father, Prakash Singh Badal, ever apologise for your great grandfather, Sardar Sunder Singh Majithia’s lavish dinner to Gen Dyer on the day of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre? He was later knighted in 1926 for his loyalty and his deeds. https://t.co/SMNwbivbnR
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) April 13, 2019
Singh later told IANS, “The Union Minister’s remarks not only smacked of duplicity but also total ignorance of my own role in the events following the Operation Blue Star.”
He reportedly said, “I resigned from both the Parliament and the Congress in protest against the military action. I was, and still am, fully aware of the implications and consequences of the events of those days.”
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As per reports, Singh quipped that Badal would have been in school at the time Operation Blue Star took place and is clueless of what happened back then.
“So don’t try to teach me on Akal Takht. No Badal can ever understand the pain the Sikh community went through. They have been always too busy to self-serve their own interests. Had it been otherwise, they would have apologised for Harsimrat’s great grandfather’s anti-nation act long back,” said Amarinder, as per reports.