Chandigarh, January 4: Reacting to an interview of the junior Badal today, LoP Khaira said that Sukhbir despite facing humiliating defeat in the assembly polls refuses to learn any lesson and continues to behave arrogantly and mischievously. Taking a pot shot at the junior Badal about his father being a Dean at the Harvard Business School if there was a department on politics, he said that yes the senior Badal would have definitely been a Dean at Harvard only if it taught the subject of corruption, ‘loot’ and how to acquire ill-gotten wealth and no politics. Khaira said junior Badal was wrongly eulogising his father, as he has failed to resolve a single issue of Punjab during his sixty years stint in politics and five tenures as Chief Minister.
Reacting to Sukhbir’s promise to take up the issue of separate Sikh identity with the Prime Minister, he said the junior Badal is only trying to regain his lost ground amongst the Sikh masses and indulging in gimmickry, as he and his party had failed to rake up this vital issue during ten years of their rule in Punjab. Khaira said had the junior Badal and Shiromani Akali Dal been serious on the issue of separate Sikh identity, they could easily have moved an amendment on Article 25(2) in the Parliament. Khaira said now that junior Badal is in opposition, he wants to whip up the sentiments of Sikhs for his personal political gains. Khaira stated that the SAD has never been serious on vital issues of Punjab and Sikhs be it transfer of Chandigarh, the left out Punjabi speaking areas, the river waters issue etc. and they only try to rake up these issues when out of power.
Hitting back hard on the issue that AAP bubble had burst and its main leader Sukhpal Khaira has no credibility, the LoP dared the junior Badal to an open debate at a place and time of his choice more preferably on his mouthpiece PTC TV channel on the issue of AAP, his credibility, morality and ethics in politics. Khaira said in case the junior Badal fails to accept his challenge, he should apologise for making maliciously false charges.
Khaira said that apart from being a meek and weak character, the junior Badal is also a habitual liar and a master of fudging figures. Khaira said the claims of junior Badal that the SAD had polled 32 % and AAP merely 21% in the 2017 assembly polls was a cock and bull story, as the fact is that SAD polled only 25.2% and the AAP had polled 23.7% votes.
Deflating the interview of the junior Badal, Khaira said it was completely off the ground and without any meaningful content displaying a feudal mindset. Khaira said it is an open secret that both the Badal and Captain Amarinder Singh clans are hand in glove with each other because of which the Badals have been able to scott free of major corruption scandals, ill-gotten wealth and their mafia operations during the last ten years.