Dal Khalsa: Akali BJP Alliance Not A Guarantor of Sikh-Hindu Amity

2014-10-19- badal modiAMRITSAR SAHIB, Punjab—Accusing Parkash Badal for showing Sikhs at large in a bad light to extract political mileage from New Delhi, the Dal Khalsa has asserted that Akali Dal’s alliance with the Hindutva party should not be construed as a guarantor of Sikh-Hindu amity. 

Strongly contesting the arguments of Punjab chief minister in co-relating the disturbance of peace with breaking up of their alliance with the Hindutva party, Dal Khalsa spokesman Kanwar Pal Singh said the relations between two communities were not on the mercy of the relations between Akali Dal and BJP. 

He said Badal for his personal political interest was portraying the Sikh struggle wrongly. He said the Sikh struggle is based on certain principles and ideology. It is not an issue of being against the Hindu community. 

Playing cheap tactics, he said Badal was pitting one community against the other. “It’s ironic and disgusting that Badal has tried to portray Sikhs and
Hindus to be baying for each other’s blood and that he (Badal) is sole guarantor of peace between the both.”

He further said the unholy alliance between both was nothing but a marriage of convenience between two political entities that were ideologically apart.  

He categorically stated that Sikh community has not benefited from Akali Dal’s becoming BJP’s partner nor would it be at loss if the alliance breaks up. 

Neither SAD solely represents the Sikh electorate nor does BJP represent all Punjabi Hindus. 

Taking the Badals to task, he said both father and son had mortgaged the Panthik interests in lieu of power and pelf. Now they are feeling heat of their own follies and blunders.

He asked the Badals to shun their double standards. “We feel Badal has done serious damage to the Sikh cause by bending before the Hindutva forces.”

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